Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Age and aging

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Paul, Jean

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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.

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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

Child, Lydia M.

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Meir, Golda

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Mittleman, Stu

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Richards, Keith

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato