Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

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

Collins, Mortimer

10.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

11.

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

Updike, John

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

14.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Burke, Billie

16.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

17.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

18.

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

Palmer, Arnold

19.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Turner, Tina

32.

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

33.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

34.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

35.

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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.