Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

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

Chopra, Deepak

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

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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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

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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

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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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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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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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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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 think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Fonda, Jane

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Marx, Groucho

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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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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Live your life and forget your age.