Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Rahel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Schulz, Charles M.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

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.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Hope, Bob

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

10.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

11.

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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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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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

14.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

16.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

17.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

18.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

19.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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

22.

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

Hawn, Goldie

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

27.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

28.

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

Beckett, Samuel

29.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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

34.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

35.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

36.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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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

40.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Greier, John

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

45.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

48.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

49.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Hemingway, Ernest