#growing old

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

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The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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The trick is growing up without growing old. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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But time growing old teaches all things. ↗

— Aeschylus

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ↗

— Euripides

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I'm growing old, I delight in the past. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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