Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

- Ali, Muhammad

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold