Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

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

Fonda, Jane

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

Cass, Eli

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Yeats, William Butler

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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To grow old is to grow common. 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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hope, Bob

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Burke, Billie

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

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

Kuhn, Maggie