Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

- Christie, Agatha

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

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Hope, Bob

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

Burke, Billie

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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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

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Greier, John

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle