Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hawn, Goldie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Thurber, James

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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 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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Hope, Bob

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

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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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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 is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Richards, Keith

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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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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De