Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

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

Billings, Josh

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

12.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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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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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Swift, Jonathan

19.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Marx, Groucho

29.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Burke, Billie

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

33.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Cope, Wendy

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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