Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Jung, Carl

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Cato The Elder

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

Gabriel, Peter

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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

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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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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Burns, George

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Burke, Billie

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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