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

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

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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

Burke, Billie

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Wordsworth, William

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hope, Bob

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Hope, Bob

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Christie, Agatha

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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

Vaughan, Henry

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Byron, Lord

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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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

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent