Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

11.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

12.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Rahel

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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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 surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Meyers, Ernest

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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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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

32.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Hope, Bob

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

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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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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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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.

47.

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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage