Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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.

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

Burns, George

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Becker, May L.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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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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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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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Rahel

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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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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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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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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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Greer, Germaine

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Burns, George

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hope, Bob

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham