Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It takes a long time to become young.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Christie, Agatha

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

10.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

11.

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

Ball, Lucille

12.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

20.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Ullman, Samuel

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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

25.

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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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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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

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

Gabriel, Peter

31.

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

Vaughan, Henry

32.

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

Proverb, Irish

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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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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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

46.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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

49.

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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don