Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

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.

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

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

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

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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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Cope, Wendy

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

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