Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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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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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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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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.