Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Burke, Billie

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

Fonda, Jane

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Billings, Josh

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

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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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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Day, Doris

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Meir, Golda

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt