Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Johnson

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Ullman, Samuel

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Mortimer, John

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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.

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Hope, Bob

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.