Old age comes with wrinkles and scars, but each old man and woman have unique stories to tell and mull over. Each decade is known for a particular incident or a famous personality or a popular style and all of these things make that era unique and only one of its kind. Read through this article for famous sixties/seventies/eighties quotations and sayings and bring back the charm and the magic of the years gone by. These evergreen quotations and sayings may have gathered a bit of dust but they are still very much applicable in today’s world.
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Old Age Quotes
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.
 Deborah Moggach |
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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover |
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Augustus |
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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
Dame Agatha Christie |
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My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.
O. J. Simpson |
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Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
Robert Plant |
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In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
Clint Eastwood |
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel Castro |
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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 |
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Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
Ellen DeGeneres |
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At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell |
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Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Jimmy Buffett |
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy |
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank |
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Thomas Hardy |
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis de Sade |
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound |
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Kenny Rogers |
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Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
Kenny Rogers |
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Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
King Solomon |
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene |
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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 |
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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 |
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville |
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Leonard Cohen |
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
David Ogilvy |
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. Hardy |
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
Ben Folds |
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.
Ben Folds |
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
Ben Folds |
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
A. J. P. Taylor |
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A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Tommy Cooper |
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams |
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In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton |
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
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Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
Satchel Paige |
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton |
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Quincy Adams |
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift |
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Noel Coward |
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Vladimir Lenin |
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Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
Neil Armstrong |
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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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It is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles Spurgeon |
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Tennessee Williams |
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
Max Weber |
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To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.
Jeff Buckley |
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Henry B. Adams |
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
Garth Brooks |
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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
Ed Howe |
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A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Ed Howe |
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
Carlos Santana |
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
Jack Nicholson |
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I don't want to die an old lady.
Edith Piaf |
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Alex Haley |
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I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
Carolyn Wells |
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
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I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.
Alexis Bledel |
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A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer |
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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams |
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I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.
Jane Fonda |
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
Chinua Achebe |
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Lydia M. Child |
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When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.
Jayne Mansfield |
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. Lovecraft |
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Anne Bradstreet |
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
Harrison Ford |
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If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
Harrison Ford |
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Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
Jeanne Moreau |
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I am 65, my friends say i look 55, i feel 45, i'll settle for 35, and you make me feel 25!
Redd Foxx |
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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It's been a long time since I've enjoyed watching a high school football game like this.
Bill Murray |
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
Michael Caine |
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