Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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 great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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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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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

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

Vaughan, Henry

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Burns, George

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Gabriel, Peter

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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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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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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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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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Proverb

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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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

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson