Motivational Quotes

Age

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

- Maurice Chevalier

Best Quotes about Age

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Carol Matthau

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

Doris Lessing

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Ellen Glasgow

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

10.

It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.

gadgetgirl

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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Homer

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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Doug Larson

13.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

14.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Saki

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I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

John Scalzi

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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

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I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

Louise Nevelson

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Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier

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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

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Aging is not'lost youth'but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

Roger Allen

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

Lucille Ball

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The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...

Sharon Olds

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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

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As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

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Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Lillian Carter

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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Russell Baker

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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

George Burns

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As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

Robert Benchley

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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Cyril Connolly

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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

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People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

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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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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

43.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me.'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Earl Warren

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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

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To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

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The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

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You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

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About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.