Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Kennedy, Rose F.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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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

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Fonda, Jane

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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Brown, Les

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

Hope, Bob

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George