Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Ray, Marie Beyon

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

Hawn, Goldie

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

Arden, Elizabeth

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marx, Groucho

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Meyers, Ernest

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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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Gabriel, Peter

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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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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

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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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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

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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Brown, Les

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Wharton, Edith

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.