Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Hope, Bob

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Updike, John

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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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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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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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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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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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