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 isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Burke, Billie

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.