Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Astaire, Fred

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

Billings, Josh

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

10.

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

Kanin, Garson

11.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

12.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

13.

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

Bible

14.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

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

Proverb, Irish

17.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

18.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

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

Byron, Lord

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

22.

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

Christie, Agatha

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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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

27.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

28.

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

Woolf, Virginia

29.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Wordsworth, William

31.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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

34.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

35.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

36.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Wharton, Edith

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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.

39.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

40.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

43.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

44.

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

45.

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

Swift, Jonathan

46.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

47.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

50.

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