Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Gabriel, Peter

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Swift, Jonathan

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Marx, Groucho

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Bleasdale, Alan

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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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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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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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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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 old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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

18.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Young, Edward

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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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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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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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

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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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Burke, Billie

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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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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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

43.

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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Turner, Tina

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Burke, Billie