Words for the Wise (page 2 of 3)

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Cheese and Candles

Forty is the age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age.
-- Victor Hugo


Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
-- Benjamin Franklin


You can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.
-- Mark Twain


Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
-- John Lithgow


You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
-- Pearl S. Buck


You know you're getting old when you get to that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blow this out."
-- Jerry Seinfeld


I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else... I never lied better.
-- George Burns


To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent -- that is to triumph over old age.
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich


Gray hair is God's graffiti.
-- Bill Cosby


Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
-- Truman Capote


You know you're getting old when you've got money to burn, but the fire's gone out.
-- Hy Gardner


I have a problem about being nearly 60: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm 31.
-- Elizabeth Janeway


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres


How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
-- Satchel Paige


I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find out I don't want to do them.
-- Nancy Astor


Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
-- Helen Hayes

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
-- Gloria Steinem


A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
-- Lucille Ball


A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
-- John Barrymore


At my age flowers scare me.
-- George Burns


Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
-- Marilyn Ferguson


You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because you let them slip by.
-- James M. Barrie


When doctors and undertakers meet, they always wink at each other.
-- W.C. Fields


Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
-- Redd Foxx


Age is no guarantee of maturity.
-- Lawana Blackwell
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