Inspirational Age Quotes

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

George Burns

Birthday, Optimistic, Wish

George Burns, David Fisher (1990). “All my best friends”, Perigee

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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

"The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Harrison Ford

Birthday, Fun, Book

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Theodore Roosevelt

Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Congratulations

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

Judith Regan

Positive Thinking, Successful, Law Of Attraction

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

Germaine Greer

Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Helen Hayes

Birthday, Age, Important

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You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Bonnie Prudden

Inspirational, Life, Time

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

Bob Hope

Birthday, Witty, Funny Inspirational

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Bernard Baruch

Funny, Birthday, Growing Up

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

Birthday, Time, Positive Thinking

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.905, Wordsworth Editions

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anais Nin

Love, Life, Age

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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

Life, Birthday, Time

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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

George Bernard Shaw

Funny, Forever, Eulogy

From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Clarence Day

Funny, Character, Wrinkles

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Old age is no place for sissies.

Bette Davis

Life, Cute, Memorable

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At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Ann Landers

Funny, Uplifting, Retirement

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You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

Woody Allen

Funny, Birthday, Witty

"Fictional character: Pearl". "Interiors", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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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.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

Graduation, Education, Teaching

Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Life, Learning

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Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Moshe Arens

Life, Learning, Mind

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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

Paul H. Dunn

Self Confidence, Wrinkles, Inspirational Birthday

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