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

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Ali, Muhammad

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

10.

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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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

12.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Palmer, R.

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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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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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 nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Greier, John

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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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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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 golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

25.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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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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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Cato The Elder

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Steele, Sir Richard

37.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir 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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.