Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Proverb, Irish

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Day, Doris

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Rostand, Jean

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dressler, Marie

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Hope, Bob

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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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

Hazlitt, William