Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Burke, Billie

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

Day, Doris

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lerner, Max

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Christie, Agatha

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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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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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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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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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Hope, Bob

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.