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Growing Old Quotes
15 FAMOUS QUOTES · GROWING OLD
Growing Old Quotes
Read 15 famous growing old quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning
“Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.”
Samuel Ullman
“Now we maun totter down, John, and hand in hand we'll go, and sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson, my jo.”
Robert Burns
“May you grow old on one pillow.”
Armenian Proverb
“We get old and get used to each other. We think alike. We read each other's minds.”
Johnny Cash
“But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face.”
W. B. Yeats
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
John Donne
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
Euripides
“All would live long, but none would be old.”Benjamin Franklin
“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”
Jonathan Swift
“To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”
Robert Browning
“No one loves life like him that's growing old.”
Sophocles
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”
Bertrand Russell