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

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.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hope, Bob

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Palmer, R.

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Brown, Les

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Dressler, Marie

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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

29.

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

Day, Doris

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Fonda, Jane

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Powell, Anthony

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.