Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Meir, Golda

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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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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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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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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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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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 that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Cass, Eli

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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 older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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