Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

- Burke, Billie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Stael, Germaine De

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Proverb, Irish

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ball, Lucille

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

42.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Christie, Agatha

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.