Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

To grow old is to grow common. 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

10.

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

Cope, Wendy

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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

12.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

13.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

20.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

22.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

25.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

39.

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

Carter, Lillian

40.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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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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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

45.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

49.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.