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

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Collins, Mortimer

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

20.

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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Hope, Bob

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Carey, Joyce

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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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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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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.