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

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

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Burke, Billie

11.

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

Dressler, Marie

12.

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

Child, Lydia M.

13.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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.

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

20.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

21.

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

Day, Doris

22.

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

Rahel

23.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

24.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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

30.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

31.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

34.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

38.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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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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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

47.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.