Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

- Ullman, Samuel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

Twain, Mark

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Brookner, Anita

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Burns, George

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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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 comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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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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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Burke, Billie

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Mittleman, Stu

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Burke, Billie

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks