Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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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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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.

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Wharton, Edith

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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

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

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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

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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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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Cass, Eli

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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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 person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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