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

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Brookner, Anita

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Burke, Billie

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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 not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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

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

Richards, Keith

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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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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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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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Wharton, Edith

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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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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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