Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Cope, Wendy

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Bleasdale, Alan

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

14.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

18.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hoagland, Edward

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

23.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

26.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Becker, May L.

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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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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

31.

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

Cope, Wendy

32.

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

Ball, Lucille

33.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

34.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

41.

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

Hope, Bob

42.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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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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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.

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

Turner, Tina

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

Rostand, Jean

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene