Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

- Engel, Sigmund Z.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bunuel, Luis

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

10.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

28.

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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kronenberger, Louis

31.

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

Burke, Billie

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Palmer, R.

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset