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

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

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

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.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Carter, Lillian

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

10.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

11.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

12.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

13.

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

Burroughs, John

14.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

19.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

20.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

21.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Cope, Wendy

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

32.

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

Johnson

33.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

34.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

38.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Yeats, William Butler

40.

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

Greier, John

41.

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

42.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

43.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

45.

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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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

49.

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

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth