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 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

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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 verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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)

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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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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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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham