Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

- Hoagland, Edward

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Byron, Lord

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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

Day, Doris

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Vaughan, Henry

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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

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

29.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

31.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hope, Bob

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

35.

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

Brown, Les

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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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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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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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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

42.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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