Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

11.

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

Carter, Lillian

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

14.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Meir, Golda

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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.

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

Young, Edward

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Collins, Mortimer

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

42.

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

43.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

44.

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

Burns, George

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius