Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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]

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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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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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Burke, Billie

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Burke, Billie

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon