Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Burroughs, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Rostand, Jean

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Cope, Wendy

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

10.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Billings, Josh

18.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

21.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Mittleman, Stu

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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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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

29.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

32.

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

33.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hope, Bob

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

Becker, May L.

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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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.

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Hawn, Goldie

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.