Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

- Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Byron, Lord

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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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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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

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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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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ray, Marie Beyon