#growing old

No one longs to live more than someone growing old. ↗

— Sophocles

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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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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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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. ↗

— Edward Koch

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Growing old is not growing up. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. ↗

— Rowan Williams

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