Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

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

Buruch, Andre B.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Greier, John

11.

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

12.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

13.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Updike, John

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

Burke, Billie

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

23.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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

25.

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

Rostand, Jean

26.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Astaire, Fred

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

40.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

41.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

43.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

46.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

50.

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