Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Kanin, Garson

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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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

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Proverb, Irish

29.

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

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Hope, Bob

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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