Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Burke, Billie

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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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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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Fonda, Jane

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.