Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Age and aging

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Steele, Sir Richard

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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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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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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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

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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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 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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Thurber, James

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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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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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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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!