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

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

Collins, Mortimer

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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

Wharton, Edith

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

Marx, Groucho

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Billings, Josh

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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.