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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

Hugo, Victor

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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To grow old is to grow common. 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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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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kanin, Garson

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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 comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon