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

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Burroughs, John

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

Rahel

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Burke, Billie

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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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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

Hope, Bob

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Bible

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hope, Bob

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.