Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Palmer, Arnold

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

Astaire, Fred

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

10.

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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Yeats, William Butler

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

22.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

35.

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

40.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

43.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.