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

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

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

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Powell, Anthony

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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

10.

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

Hope, Bob

11.

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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

13.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

15.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

16.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

18.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

19.

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

Brookner, Anita

20.

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

Hope, Bob

21.

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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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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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

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

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.

26.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

27.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

28.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

29.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

30.

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

Mittleman, Stu

31.

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

32.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

33.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

34.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

36.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

38.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

39.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

40.

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

41.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

44.

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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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

46.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

47.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

48.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

49.

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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom