Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Kennedy, Rose F.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Hazlitt, William

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

10.

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

Cope, Wendy

11.

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

Hope, Bob

12.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

13.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

14.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Gabriel, Peter

20.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

24.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

25.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

26.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

27.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

28.

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

29.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

30.

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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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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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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

35.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

40.

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

Fonda, Jane

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

43.

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

Christie, Agatha

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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