Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

- Carr, Emily

Best Quotes about Age and aging

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Christie, Agatha

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

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Hawn, Goldie

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

22.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

30.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bible

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

40.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Woolf, Virginia

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

47.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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Age considers; youth ventures.