Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

- Buruch, Andre B.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Richards, Keith

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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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 you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Hugo, Victor

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gabriel, Peter

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Byron, Lord

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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