Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

- Kuhn, Maggie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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.

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

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

11.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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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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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

16.

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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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

18.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

21.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

22.

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

Collins, Mortimer

23.

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

25.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

26.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

27.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

28.

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

Bunuel, Luis

29.

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 is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

31.

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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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Cass, Eli

37.

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

44.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

45.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

48.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

49.

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

Palmer, R.

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

Wordsworth, William