Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Updike, John

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

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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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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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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

14.

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

Dressler, Marie

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Burns, George

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

Kuhn, Maggie

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Rahel

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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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.

42.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Burke, Billie

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence