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

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Ball, Lucille

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

11.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

14.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

18.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

19.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

20.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Burke, Billie

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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.

32.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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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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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Meyers, Ernest

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Nuveen, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul