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'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Bleasdale, Alan

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Palmer, Arnold

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bible

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas