Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chopra, Deepak

10.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

11.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

13.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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

Jung, Carl

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

17.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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.

19.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

20.

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

Brown, Captain J.

21.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

23.

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

Mittleman, Stu

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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.

31.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

34.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

35.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

36.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

37.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Pepper, Claude D.

40.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

46.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Burns, George

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

50.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia