Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Proverb

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Trotsky, Leon

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

10.

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

11.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

12.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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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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.

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

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

Day, Doris

19.

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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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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

Hope, Bob

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

Defoe, Daniel

26.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

34.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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

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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 is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

38.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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

41.

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

Turner, Tina

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

48.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis