Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

- Meyers, Ernest

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dressler, Marie

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

14.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Hope, Bob

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Proverb

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lerner, Max

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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

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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

47.

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

Burns, George

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.