Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Ball, Lucille

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.

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

Astaire, Fred

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lehrer, Tom

26.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

28.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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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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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

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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

43.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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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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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth