Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

- Simon, St.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Kuhn, Maggie

10.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

12.

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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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

15.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

16.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

17.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

20.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Greier, John

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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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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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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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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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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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Rahel

48.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.