Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Defoe, Daniel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

10.

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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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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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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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

14.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Burns, George

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

Young, Edward

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

21.

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

Billings, Josh

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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 people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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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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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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

39.

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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.