Motivational Quotes

Age

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

Best Quotes about Age

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

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

Ellen Glasgow

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

Plutarch

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Betty Friedan

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

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Maurice Chevalier

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

Sharon Olds

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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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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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Scott Adams

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

Miriam Makeba

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

Carol Matthau

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Doug Larson

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

Bernard M. Baruch

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As we grow oldàthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lillian Carter

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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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Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz

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

Tom Stoppard

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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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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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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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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

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I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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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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You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

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

Robert Benchley

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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