Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Hope, Bob

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Marx, Groucho

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Carter, Lillian

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Palmer, R.

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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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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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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.