Motivational Quotes

Age

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

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Age

You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

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

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

Michael Pritchard

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

gadgetgirl

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

Tom Stoppard

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Robinson Jeffers

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

Russell Baker

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

Miriam Makeba

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

Sharon Olds

31.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Maurice Chevalier

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

Gloria Pitzer

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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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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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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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People age even when you're not looking.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

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

Robert Benchley

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

Louise Nevelson

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

Betty Friedan

46.

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

Doug Larson

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

Lillian Carter

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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.