Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Carter, Lillian

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

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

Nuveen, John

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

Kuhn, Maggie

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Burroughs, John

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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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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Burke, Billie

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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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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bunuel, Luis

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Rahel

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mittleman, Stu

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Hawn, Goldie

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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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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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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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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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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.