Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

- Burke, Billie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

10.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

16.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

19.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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

Lerner, Max

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

26.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

27.

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

Burns, George

28.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

33.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

34.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Steele, Sir Richard

38.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

39.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

40.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

41.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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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

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Swift, Jonathan

47.

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.