Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Arden, Elizabeth

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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 will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Byron, Lord

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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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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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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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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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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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.