Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Billings, Josh

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

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Hope, Bob

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

Meir, Golda

11.

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

Astaire, Fred

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Wharton, Edith

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord