Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

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

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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

Twain, Mark

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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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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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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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.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Cass, Eli

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Christie, Agatha

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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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Burke, Billie

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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