Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

- Brown, Captain J.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Collins, Mortimer

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Browning, Robert

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

20.

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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Irish

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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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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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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.