Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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.

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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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.

21.

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

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

33.

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

Beckett, Samuel

34.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

35.

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

Proverb

36.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

50.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George