Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

- Hackman, Gene

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

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

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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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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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

Thurber, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

35.

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

Day, Doris

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

37.

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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

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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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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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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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?