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

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Ali, Muhammad

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Greier, John

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hope, Bob

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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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