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

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

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

Schulz, Charles M.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

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

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Child, Lydia M.

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Palmer, R.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Greier, John

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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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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]

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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