Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Live your life and forget your age.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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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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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Burke, Billie

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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Wordsworth, William

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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

Wharton, Edith

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.