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

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

Becker, May L.

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Burke, Billie

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.