Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

- Buruch, Andre B.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Burke, Billie

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Burke, Billie

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

27.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

30.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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

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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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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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To grow old is to grow common. 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

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad