Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

Meir, Golda

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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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 tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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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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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Burroughs, John

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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

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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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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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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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

Trotsky, Leon

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Burke, Billie

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William