Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Schulz, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

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

Cope, Wendy

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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.

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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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Greier, John

14.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

15.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

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

Hope, Bob

21.

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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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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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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

25.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Kronenberger, Louis

34.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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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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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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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 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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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

48.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

49.

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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.