Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

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

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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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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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

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Vaughan, Henry

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hawn, Goldie

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Irish

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Hope, Bob

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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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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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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)