Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Christie, Agatha

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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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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Richards, Keith

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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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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Dressler, Marie

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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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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

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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.