Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Live your life and forget your age.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Collins, Mortimer

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.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Byron, Lord

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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Trotsky, Leon

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Greier, John

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane