Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Meyers, Ernest

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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Updike, John

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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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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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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

Collins, Mortimer

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

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

Billings, Josh

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

37.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Cato The Elder

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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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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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.

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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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.