Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

- Arden, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

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

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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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hope, Bob

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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Burke, Billie

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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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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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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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Burke, Billie

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

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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.