Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

- Bunuel, Luis

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

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

Shakespeare, William

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

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 foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Burns, George

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Brown, Captain J.

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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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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 does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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

Day, Doris

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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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Hawn, Goldie

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Turner, Tina

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul