Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Gabriel, Peter

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Becker, May L.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

30.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, 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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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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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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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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Burns, George

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Brown, Les