Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Greier, John

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Billings, Josh

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Powell, Anthony

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kanin, Garson

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Lerner, Max

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Richards, Keith

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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

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.