Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

13.

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

Brookner, Anita

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

15.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

16.

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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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

18.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

20.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

25.

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

Hope, Bob

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

29.

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.

30.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

31.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

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

34.

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

Wharton, Edith

35.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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

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

40.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

41.

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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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.

43.

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

Beckett, Samuel

44.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

45.

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 youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

47.

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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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

49.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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