Age is Just a Number: More than 150 Quotations on Aging with Humor and Style

• Inspiration • Quotations

“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.“ George Bernard Shaw

“ The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.“ Lucille Ball

“ You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.“

Age Is Just a Number

Humor & Entertainment

Harrison Ford

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AGE IS Number More Than 150 Quotations on Aging with Humor and Style

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Live Forever . . . Or Die Trying!

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative,” especially when you can draw on the wit and wisdom of the ages to age with grace, humor, and optimism. Age Is Just a Number gathers together more than 150 quotations from writers, actors, athletes, humorists, politicians, and other great minds and entertainers from bygone eras to today.

The quotes range from the irreverent (“Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.”) to the whimsical (“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”) to the sage (“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”).

The inspiring quotations in this entertaining collection will have you convinced that “the shady side of fifty” is the best time of your life. As Robert Browning said, “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be!”

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C. S. Lewis British writer

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Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

Candice Bergen American actress

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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist, poet, and philosopher

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Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

Betty White American actress and comedian

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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. American physician and poet

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And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

Audrey Hepburn British actress and humanitarian

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I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Dwight D. Eisenhower U.S. President and general

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Pearl S. Buck American writer and Nobel laureate

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About the Illustrator After studying animal behavior, Phil Marden moved to New York City, where he worked as a layout artist and graphic designer. There, he honed his skills as an illustrator for publishing, advertising, commercials, television shows, and movies. He has illustrated regular columns in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Spy, Self, and other publications.

He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Index A

Ball, Lucille 145

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Adams, Franklin P. 124 Adams, Joey 115 AimĂŠe, Anouk 85 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey 20 Ali, Muhammad 132 Alighieri, Dante 33 Angelou, Maya 75 Aristotle 146 Armstrong, Louis 171 Arthur, Bea 79 Atwood, Margaret 117 Ausonius 40

Bardot, Brigitte 159

Carlyle, Thomas 103 Carter, Jimmy 71 Casals, Pablo 129 Chanel, Coco 63 Chase, William Merritt 60 Chevalier, Maurice 155 Christie, Agatha 162 Collins, Joan 24 Confucius 138 Cowley, Malcolm 139

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Buck, Pearl S. 15

Bacall, Lauren 36 Bach, Richard 92 Bacon, Francis 9

Buffett, Jimmy 116

Barry, Dave 37 Barrymore, John 91 Benchley, Robert 133 Benny, Jack 109 Bergen, Candice 7 Berra, Yogi 172 Bombeck, Erma 170 Borge, Victor 163 Brooks, Mel 44 Broughton, James 73 Browning, Robert 52

Burnett, Carol 131 Burns, George 19

D Dangerfield, Rodney 121 Davis, Bette 101 Davis, Chili 102 Davis, Jim 50 Davis, Sammy, Jr. 150

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Day, Doris 70 Degeneres, Ellen 119 Diller, Phyllis 81 Disney, Walt 152 Donne, John 84

E Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von 53 Einstein, Albert 122 Eisenhower, Dwight D. 14 Eliot, George 87 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 10 Ephron, Nora 95 Epictetus 120

F Fields, W. C. 173 Fonda, Jane 83 Ford, Harrison 57 Ford, Henry 18 Franklin, Aretha 130 Franklin, Benjamin 108 Freud, Sigmund 26 Friedan, Betty 105 Frost, Robert 54 Fürstenberg, Diane von 113

García Márquez, Gabriel 99 Garfield, James A. 22 Getty, Estelle 27 Goldberg, Whoopi 90 Graham, Katharine 69 Graham, Martha 151 Greer, Germaine 137 Grey, Edward, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon 93

H Hardy, Thomas 160 Hayes, Helen 142 Heinlein, Robert A. 67 Hepburn, Audrey 13 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. 12 Hope, Bob 55 Hopkins, Anthony 125 Hugo, Victor 88 Huxley, Aldous 111

J Jackson, Holbrook 98 Jagger, Mick 29 Jordan, Michael 34 Jung, Carl 58

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Gandhi, Mahatma 64

Keaton, Diane 45

Kierkegaard, So/ ren 118 King, B. B. 168 Kitt, Eartha 127

L L’Engle, Madeleine 166 Landers, Ann 8 Lansbury, Angela 35 La Rochefoucauld, François de 72 Lauder, Evelyn 23 Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy 74 Lemons, Abe 147 Lessing, Doris 128 Lewis, C. S. 6 Lincoln, Abraham 66 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 77 Loren, Sophia 110

M MacDonald, George 62 Machiavelli, Niccolò 112 Mandela, Nelson 78 Marshall, Thurgood 144 Marx, Groucho 107 Maurois, André 148 McClaughlin, Mignon 156 Melville, Herman 86 Mencken, H. L. 46

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Midler, Bette 49 Montagu, Ashley 21 Moody, Dwight L. 32 Moreau, Jeanne 25

Richards, Keith 76

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Rivers, Joan 39

Tarkington, Booth 114 Thompson, Hunter S. 100 Thoreau, Henry David 94 Townsend Warner, Sylvia 153 Turner, Tina 65 Twain, Mark 82

Robinson, Jackie 143 Rooney, Andy 167 Roosevelt, Theodore 157

N Newhart, Bob 61 Newman, Paul 97 Nin, AnaĂŻs 31

O Obama, Barack 104

P Paige, Satchel 161 Peacock, Thomas Love 89 Pepper, Claude 136 Picasso, Pablo 149 Pope John XXIII 48 Powell, Colin 80 Pryor, Richard 154

Rumi 134

S Sand, George 43 Sarandon, Susan 123 Seneca the Younger 126 Seuss, Dr. 68 Shakespeare, William 38 Shaw, George Bernard 42 Sills, Beverly 96 Socrates 51 Sophocles 106 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 169 Stegner, Wallace 59 Stein, Gertrude 16

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Streep, Meryl 135

Renard, Jules 28

Swift, Jonathan 164

U Ullman, Samuel 30

V Vaughan, Bill 165 Vonnegut, Kurt 141

W Wagner, John 41 Washington, Denzel 17 White, Betty 11 White, E. B. 140 Winfrey, Oprah 56 Winters, Shelley 47 Wisdom, Norman 158

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• Inspiration • Quotations

“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.“ George Bernard Shaw

“ The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.“ Lucille Ball

“ You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.“

Age Is Just a Number

Humor & Entertainment

Harrison Ford

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$ 12 . 9 5 U S • $ 17. 5 0 C A N I S B N : 9 7 8 -1- 6 4 0 21- 0 3 5 - 6

AGE IS Number More Than 150 Quotations on Aging with Humor and Style

8/23/18 12:49 PM