Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Pepper, Claude D.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Durrell, Lawrence

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Greier, John

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

19.

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

Meir, Golda

20.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

24.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Burke, Billie

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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.

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Becker, May L.

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

Dressler, Marie

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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