Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

- Kuhn, Maggie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

11.

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

Ali, Muhammad

12.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

19.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

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

Christie, Agatha

30.

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

Hope, Bob

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Jung, Carl

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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.

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

38.

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

39.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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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

41.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

45.

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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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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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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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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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas