Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Pepper, Claude D.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Tholuck

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

Burke, Billie

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.