Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Lillian Carter

Best Quotes about Age

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

Carol Matthau

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

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bernard M. Baruch

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

Lynn Johnston

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.

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

Robert Benchley

12.

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

Doug Larson

13.

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

Sharon Olds

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

H. L. Mencken

17.

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

Lillian Carter

18.

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

Groucho Marx

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

Louise Nevelson

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

Saki

23.

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

Plutarch

25.

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

Russell Baker

26.

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

Michael Pritchard

27.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

28.

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

Lucille Ball

30.

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

George Santayana

31.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

32.

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

Tom Stoppard

33.

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

34.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

35.

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

Aristotle

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

Robinson Jeffers

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

Homer

42.

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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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

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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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You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

46.

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

gadgetgirl

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

Betty Friedan

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

Gloria Pitzer