Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

28.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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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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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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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.