Aging Quotes
1128 quotes by 787 authors
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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
— George MacDonald
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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.
— Don Marquis
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I intend to live forever, or die trying.
— Groucho Marx
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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
— Groucho Marx
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I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.
— Dave Matthews
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
— Andre Maurois
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to…
— Andre Maurois
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Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
— Leighton Meester
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
— Golda Meir
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
— Golda Meir
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were…
— Golda Meir
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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.
— Herman Melville
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
— H. L. Mencken
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
— H. L. Mencken
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
— Bette Midler
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