Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

- Dix, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Byron, Lord

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hope, Bob

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Brown, Les

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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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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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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Paul, Jean

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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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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De