A Quote by Bob Monkhouse

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

Bob Monkhouse

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Bob Monkhouse
English - Comedian
Born: June 1, 1928

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

Sebastian Horsley

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Chili Davis

I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing yes, I'm growing old!

John Godfrey Saxe

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

Heather Brewer

The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.

Rajneesh

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

John Spence

Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

Walt Disney

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Casey Stengel

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.

Michelle Dockery

Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in plateaus.

Alexandre Desplat

I take no notice of trolls because my bank balance is growing and growing and growing and growing - they can troll me all they want.

Gemma Collins

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

John Mellencamp

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

Dikembe Mutombo

Growing old is not growing up.

Douglas Horton

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Evan Esar

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