Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Marx, Groucho

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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