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

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Nuveen, John

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

Burke, Billie

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Marx, Groucho

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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

Christie, Agatha

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord