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

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Mittleman, Stu

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, 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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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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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 rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Updike, John

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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli