Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Young, Edward

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Vaughan, Henry

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hope, Bob

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Wordsworth, William

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Updike, John

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Meyers, Ernest

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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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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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

Nuveen, John

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.