Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Growing old is not growing up.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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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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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

Proverb, Irish

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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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

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Cass, Eli

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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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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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.