Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Carey, Joyce

Best Quotes about Age and aging

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hope, Bob

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Day, Doris

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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

Wharton, Edith

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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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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Marx, Groucho

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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 isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Becker, May L.

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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