Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Age and aging

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Palmer, Arnold

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

16.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

17.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

18.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

25.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

30.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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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

32.

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

Billings, Josh

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

40.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Ullman, Samuel

46.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.