Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Schulz, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Hawn, Goldie

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Palmer, R.

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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

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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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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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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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.

30.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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.

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Dressler, Marie

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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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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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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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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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

50.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William