Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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

Burke, Billie

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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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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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

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marx, Groucho

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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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

28.

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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

30.

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

Woolf, Virginia

31.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Burns, George

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rahel

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

Bible

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

46.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin