Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Carlyle, Thomas

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

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

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Vaughan, Henry

11.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

12.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Defoe, Daniel

14.

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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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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

22.

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

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Greier, John

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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

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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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.