Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

- Richards, Keith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Greier, John

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Chopra, Deepak

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

Mortimer, John

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Cass, Eli

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Burke, Billie

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

Wharton, Edith

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To grow old is to grow common. 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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

Bible

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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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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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

Fonda, Jane

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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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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug