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

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Cope, Wendy

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

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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 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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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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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

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Child, Lydia M.

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Updike, John

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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

31.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hope, Bob

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

50.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham