Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

10.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

11.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

13.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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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.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

18.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

19.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

20.

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

21.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

23.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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

26.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

27.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

28.

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

Hope, Bob

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

34.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

35.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Burke, Billie

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

Limbaugh, Rush

40.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

41.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

46.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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

50.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas