Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Rahel

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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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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cope, Wendy

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Burke, Billie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille