Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Arden, Elizabeth

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

12.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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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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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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

34.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Ali, Muhammad

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.