Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

How can I die? I'm booked.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Christie, Agatha

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert