Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Defoe, Daniel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Ullman, Samuel

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

12.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Rahel

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Jung, Carl

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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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mittleman, Stu

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Burns, George

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!