Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Maurice Chevalier

Best Quotes about Age

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

gadgetgirl

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

Robert Benchley

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

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

Aristotle

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

Oscar Wilde

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

Doug Larson

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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

11.

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

Saki

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

Tom Stoppard

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

Robinson Jeffers

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

Bernard M. Baruch

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

Plutarch

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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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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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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

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Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

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

Betty Friedan

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Lillian Carter

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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

31.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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

Maurice Chevalier

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People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

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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

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

Anouk Aimee

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You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

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As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Michael Pritchard

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

Sharon Olds

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

Gloria Pitzer

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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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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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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich