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

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

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

Lehrer, Tom

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

10.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

11.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

12.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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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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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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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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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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

30.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Woolf, Virginia

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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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 considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

40.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

41.

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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

45.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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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