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

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 person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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 more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Wharton, Edith

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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

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Captain J.

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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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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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