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

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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.

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

10.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

12.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

13.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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]

Bible

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

Burke, Billie

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

Rahel

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

33.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

35.

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

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

39.

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

Updike, John

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

Mittleman, Stu

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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

50.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin