Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Meyers, Ernest

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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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

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Burke, Billie

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 trick is growing up without growing old.