Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Carter, Lillian

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Gabriel, Peter

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Greier, John

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

Day, Doris

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

Woolf, Virginia

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

32.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Burke, Billie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Christie, Agatha

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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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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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.