Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Edwards, Tryon

10.

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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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]

Bible

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

18.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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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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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Woolf, Virginia

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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

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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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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

Updike, John