Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

To grow old is to grow common. 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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

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

Powell, Anthony

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

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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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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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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

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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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Byron, Lord

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander