Motivational Quotes

Age

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

- Edith Wharton

Best Quotes about Age

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Sharon Olds

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

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Tom Stoppard

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

Plutarch

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier

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

10.

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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Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

12.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

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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

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

15.

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

Michael Pritchard

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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

20.

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

Carol Matthau

21.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Lillian Carter

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I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Pablo Casals

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As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

Robert Benchley

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

25.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

26.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Saki

28.

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

Louise Nevelson

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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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The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the'Dilbert guy.'Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be'that stabbin'Dilbert guy.'

Scott Adams

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The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

32.

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

Doug Larson

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

gadgetgirl

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

Marilyn Ferguson

35.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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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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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

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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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

John Scalzi

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As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

George Burns

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

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Age isàwisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

Miriam Makeba

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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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About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Gloria Pitzer

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