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

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

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Cato The Elder

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

10.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Proverb, Irish

12.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

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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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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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

18.

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

Palmer, R.

19.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

20.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

25.

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

Rahel

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

Hope, Bob

27.

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

28.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

33.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Greier, John

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

Collins, Mortimer

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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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

41.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

42.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

43.

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

44.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Child, Lydia M.

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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 is a high price to pay for maturity.