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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Young, Edward

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ball, Lucille

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Marx, Groucho

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Dressler, Marie

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Greier, John

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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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

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.