Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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

10.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

11.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

12.

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

Ali, Muhammad

13.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Billings, Josh

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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

28.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

30.

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

31.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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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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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Astaire, Fred

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If youth knew; if age could.