Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

- Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Wharton, Edith

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

Proverb, Irish

10.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

11.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Tholuck

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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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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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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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.

25.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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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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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

33.

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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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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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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Einstein, Albert

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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