Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

Hope, Bob

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Burke, Billie

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

21.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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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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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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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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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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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 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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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert