Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Turner, Tina

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Woolf, Virginia

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Gabriel, Peter

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Young, Edward

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

Tholuck

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.