Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Burroughs, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

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

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

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Burke, Billie

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Young, Edward

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Meyers, Ernest

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Becker, May L.

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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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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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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Rahel

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.