Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Burke, Billie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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 will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Becker, May L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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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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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

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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

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Woolf, Virginia

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gabriel, Peter

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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

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jung, Carl

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

Lerner, Max

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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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William