Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Fonda, Jane

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

11.

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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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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

20.

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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

22.

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

Brookner, Anita

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hoagland, Edward

28.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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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

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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]

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35.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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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

39.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

40.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Young, Edward

42.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda