Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Cope, Wendy

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kuhn, Maggie

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Brookner, Anita

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hazlitt, William

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Billings, Josh

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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To grow old is to grow common. 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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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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

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fonda, Jane

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Rahel

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.

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

Day, Doris