Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Ali, Muhammad

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Burke, Billie

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Cope, Wendy

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

10.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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

14.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Gabriel, Peter

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Wordsworth, William

28.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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

Carter, Lillian

34.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Lehrer, Tom

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Powell, Anthony

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