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Age Quotes

• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter - Mark Twain


• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young - Henry Ford


• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been - Mark Twain


• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read - Francis Bacon


• All diseases run into one, old age - Ralph Waldo Emerson


• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul - Samuel Ullman


• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age - Victor Hugo


• You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old - George Burns


• A man growing old becomes a child again – Sophocles


• Age merely shows what children we remain - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


• There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people

you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age - Sophia Loren


• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order - John Adams


• I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless - James Broughton.


• We are always the same age inside - Gertrude Stein


• I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel - Henri Frederic Amiel


• To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age - Amos Bronson Alcott


• Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man - James Thurber


• Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec


• Age is like love, it cannot be hid - Thomas Dekker

Additional Info

  • Category: General English
  • Level: Upper-Intermediate
  • Unit: 10
  • Activity: Speaking Comprehention
  • Type of Material: Vocabulary Lists
  • Learning Strategy: Reading Comprehension Learning Strategy
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