Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Greier, John

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Marx, Groucho

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Burke, Billie

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Child, Lydia M.

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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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

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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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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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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Brookner, Anita

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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.

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon