Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Collins, Mortimer

Best Quotes about Age and aging

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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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

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

Gabriel, Peter

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Burke, Billie

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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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

Brown, Les

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth