Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Burroughs, John

10.

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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.

17.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

18.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

19.

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

20.

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

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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

30.

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.

31.

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

Burns, George

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

33.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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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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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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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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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

Rahel

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

45.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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