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

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

Chopra, Deepak

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Cass, Eli

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

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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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Marx, Groucho

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hawn, Goldie

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

Cope, Wendy

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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'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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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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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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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