Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Becker, May L.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Burke, Billie

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

10.

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

Ball, Lucille

11.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

12.

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

13.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

15.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

17.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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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.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

31.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

33.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Bible

45.

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

Day, Doris

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Marx, Groucho

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie