Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Woolf, Virginia

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fonda, Jane

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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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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

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wordsworth, William

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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.