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

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

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

Burke, Billie

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Cass, Eli

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

30.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lerner, Max

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Billings, Josh