Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Wharton, Edith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Hope, Bob

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hoagland, Edward

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Burke, Billie

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

Hope, Bob

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

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

Burke, Billie

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

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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.