Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Hope, Bob

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

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

Kuhn, Maggie

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

10.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

11.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Kanin, Garson

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

23.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Day, Doris

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

Turner, Tina

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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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.

32.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

33.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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To grow old is to grow common. 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

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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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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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Meyers, Ernest

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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.

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