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

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

Byron, Lord

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Cass, Eli

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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

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

Collins, Mortimer

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Burns, George

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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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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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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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.