Favorite Quotations ~  Age, 7 Six Thinking Hats

"Age is a matter of feeling, not of years." ~ George William Curtis

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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I thought (age) was a quiet time... My 70s were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age... Inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable. ~ Florida Scott-Maxwell, Measure of My Days

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. ~ English Proverb

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young. ~ Hugh Hefner, 80

Years do not always make age. ~ George Sand, Haunted Pool, 1851

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. ~ Ed Wynn

Damn the age. I’ll write for antiquity. ~ Charles Lamb

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ~ Jeanne Moreau

The old forget. The young don't know. ~ Japanese Proverb

It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time—And you are better than you know. ~ Marianne Williamson, Age of Miracles

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year. ~ David Viscott

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