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

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

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

10.

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

11.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

12.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

13.

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

Lehrer, Tom

14.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

22.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

23.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Gabriel, Peter

26.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

27.

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

28.

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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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

32.

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

33.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

34.

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

35.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

37.

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

Dressler, Marie

38.

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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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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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

43.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

44.

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.

45.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

46.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

48.

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