Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Selznick, Irene Mayer

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Stael, Germaine De

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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

Powell, Anthony

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hope, Bob

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

Burke, Billie

17.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

19.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Burke, Billie

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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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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

34.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

37.

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

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Brown, Les

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb