Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Becker, May L.

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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Burke, Billie

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

Dressler, Marie

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit