Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Carter, Lillian

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Mittleman, Stu

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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.

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul