Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Vaughan, Henry

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

10.

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

11.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

13.

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

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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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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

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

20.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

Shakespeare, William

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

28.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

31.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

34.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Astaire, Fred

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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.

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

47.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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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