Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

- Kent, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

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

12.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Ball, Lucille

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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 cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Christie, Agatha

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

33.

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

34.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

35.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

36.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

37.

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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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

45.

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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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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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.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William