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

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

Nuveen, John

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

Byron, Lord

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Thurber, James

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

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.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

10.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

11.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

14.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

16.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Mittleman, Stu

19.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

20.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

21.

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

Hope, Bob

22.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

26.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

29.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Kanin, Garson

32.

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

33.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

34.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

35.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Carter, Lillian

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

42.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Turner, Tina

45.

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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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

49.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

Cass, Eli