Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

- Turner, Tina

Best Quotes about Age and aging

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ball, Lucille

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Lerner, Max

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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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

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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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