Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Gabriel, Peter

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

10.

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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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Brown, Captain J.

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

31.

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

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

34.

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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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Astaire, Fred

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

Powell, Anthony

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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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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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia