Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Fonda, Jane

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Defoe, Daniel

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

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.

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Burns, George

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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 older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Tholuck

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Franklin, Benjamin