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

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

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Day, Doris

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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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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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Cass, Eli

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Burke, Billie

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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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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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

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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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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.