Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Burke, Billie

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.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

11.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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

13.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

14.

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

Cass, Eli

15.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

16.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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.

18.

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

Burns, George

19.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

23.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

24.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

25.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

32.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

34.

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

35.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Hope, Bob

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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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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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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

48.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von