Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

- Rubinstein, Helena

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Richards, Keith

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

Greier, John

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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

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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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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Christie, Agatha

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Burke, Billie

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Hemingway, Ernest