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

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Tholuck

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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.

10.

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

Burroughs, John

11.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

12.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

15.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Steele, Sir Richard

17.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Richards, Keith

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

28.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

35.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Billings, Josh

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Carter, Lillian

45.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie