Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson

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.

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

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Cass, Eli

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Rostand, Jean

14.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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.

16.

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

Astaire, Fred

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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

18.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

19.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

20.

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

30.

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

Palmer, R.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

35.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Burke, Billie

46.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

50.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William