Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is a shipwreck.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Burns, George

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

Nicklaus, Jack

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Young, Edward

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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

Updike, John

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.