Motivational Quotes

Age

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

Best Quotes about Age

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

As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Maurice Chevalier

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

Sharon Olds

10.

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

11.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

12.

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

Lynn Johnston

13.

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

H. L. Mencken

14.

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

Lucille Ball

15.

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

Robert Benchley

16.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

18.

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

Russell Baker

19.

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

Homer

20.

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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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

22.

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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You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

24.

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

Aristotle

26.

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

George Santayana

27.

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

Plutarch

28.

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

29.

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

gadgetgirl

30.

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

Doug Larson

31.

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

Saki

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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

Cyril Connolly

34.

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

Gloria Pitzer

35.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

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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

37.

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

Louise Nevelson

38.

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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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

40.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

41.

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

John Scalzi

42.

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

Robinson Jeffers

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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

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

Anouk Aimee

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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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

50.

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

Elizabeth Aston