Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Young, Edward

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Fonda, Jane

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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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 perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Burns, George

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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.

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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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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar