Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is the verdict of life.

- Barr, Amelia E.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Greier, John

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

Billings, Josh

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

Burns, George

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Thurber, James

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

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

16.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

17.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

18.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

19.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

20.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

30.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

31.

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

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Mittleman, Stu

34.

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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Ball, Lucille

39.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

40.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.

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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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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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

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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 things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.