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 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

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.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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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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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

20.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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 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.

23.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Hope, Bob

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

Jung, Carl

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Proverb

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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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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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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Live your life and forget your age.