Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Bunuel, Luis

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Hope, Bob

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Lerner, Max

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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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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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

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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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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Beckett, Samuel

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Child, Lydia M.

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Burns, George

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Browning, Robert

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve