Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Burke, Billie

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Carter, Lillian

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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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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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

30.

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

Becker, May L.

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

Wordsworth, William

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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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

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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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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Meir, Golda

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.