Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Age

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

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

Ellen Glasgow

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

Robert Benchley

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

H. L. Mencken

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

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Louise Nevelson

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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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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

15.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Maurice Chevalier

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

Miriam Makeba

19.

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Gloria Pitzer

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

Anouk Aimee

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

Lucille Ball

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

Saki

29.

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

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You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

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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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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

33.

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

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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Aging is not'lost youth'but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

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As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Plutarch

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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

43.

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

gadgetgirl

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

Elizabeth Aston

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