Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

- Selznick, Irene Mayer

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

13.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Young, Edward

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

Kanin, Garson

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

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

27.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

31.

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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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 all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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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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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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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Greier, John

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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.