Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Christie, Agatha

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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)

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Cato The Elder

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

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.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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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 don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

15.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

22.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

28.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

29.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

32.

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

33.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

34.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Greier, John

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

38.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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 is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

45.

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

Hope, Bob

46.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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

49.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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