Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Cope, Wendy

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Beckett, Samuel

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Philo

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

Vaughan, Henry

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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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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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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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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fonda, Jane

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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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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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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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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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Yeats, William Butler