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

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Greier, John

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

Meir, Golda

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

Powell, Anthony

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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.

18.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Burroughs, John

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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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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

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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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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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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Mortimer

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.