Motivational Quotes

Age

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Best Quotes about Age

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

George Burns

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...

Sharon Olds

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?

Tish Grier

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Plutarch

It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.

gadgetgirl

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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Doug Larson

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

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No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Lynn Johnston

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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

17.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Ellen Glasgow

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

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To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

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As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Cyril Connolly

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Russell Baker

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To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

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In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

Roger Allen

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When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

Doris Lessing

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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me.'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Earl Warren

34.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Carol Matthau

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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Homer

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People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.