Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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

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

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Billings, Josh

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Hope, Bob

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

Limbaugh, Rush

10.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

11.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

20.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

22.

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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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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

28.

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

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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.

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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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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Rahel

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

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

Palmer, R.

37.

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.

38.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

39.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

40.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

41.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

42.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

43.

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

44.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

45.

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

Fonda, Jane

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

49.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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.