Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Age and aging

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Burns, George

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hope, Bob

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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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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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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