Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Byron, Lord

14.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Ali, Muhammad

17.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

18.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

19.

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

Hope, Bob

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

21.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

23.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

24.

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

28.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

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

Burke, Billie

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Carter, Lillian

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

Rahel

33.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

34.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

35.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

36.

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

Bible

37.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

38.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

44.

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

Becker, May L.

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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

47.

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

Hope, Bob

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

Hugo, Victor

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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