Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Marx, Groucho

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Limbaugh, Rush

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Carter, Lillian

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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 way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Dressler, Marie

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Hope, Bob

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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.

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Becker, May L.

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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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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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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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Tholuck