Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The worst old age is that of the mind.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

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

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Kuhn, Maggie

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

10.

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

11.

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

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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

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

15.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

16.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

18.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

19.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

20.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

22.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

Brookner, Anita

26.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

27.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

29.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

30.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

31.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

32.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

33.

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)

34.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

35.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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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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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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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

40.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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

Brown, Les

42.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Ullman, Samuel

44.

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

45.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

46.

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

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

49.

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

Palmer, Arnold

50.

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