Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Astaire, Fred

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Palmer, Arnold

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.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.