Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

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

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.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

Proverb

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

Palmer, R.

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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

22.

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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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

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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.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Meyers, Ernest

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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

31.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

33.

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

Hope, Bob

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

Billings, Josh

35.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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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.

49.

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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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.