Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

- Burke, Billie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Hardy, Thomas

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

31.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

43.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Bonstettin

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

50.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William