Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is the verdict of life.

- Barr, Amelia E.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Fonda, Jane

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

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

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

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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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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

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Irish

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cope, Wendy

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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.

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

Marx, Groucho

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.