Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

Hope, Bob

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Day, Doris

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Defoe, Daniel

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cass, Eli

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Young, Edward

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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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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Paul, Jean

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Lerner, Max

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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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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin