Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

How can I die? I'm booked.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Wordsworth, William

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

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

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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 aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Burke, Billie

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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

27.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

28.

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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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

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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

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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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

Lerner, Max

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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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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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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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George