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

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

13.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

14.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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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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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

17.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

Becker, May L.

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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

30.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Hope, Bob

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

40.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

48.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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

Byron, Lord