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

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Astaire, Fred

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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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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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

Burke, Billie

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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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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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Fonda, Jane

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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 old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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 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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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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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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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 carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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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

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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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