Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

If youth knew; if age could.

- Estienne, Henri

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Billings, Josh

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

Meyers, Ernest

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Cass, Eli

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Fonda, Jane

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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 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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Dressler, Marie