Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Marx, Groucho

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

12.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

13.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

20.

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

Ball, Lucille

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

22.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Greier, John

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Becker, May L.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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

33.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

34.

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

Carter, Lillian

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

40.

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

41.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Meir, Golda

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

Christie, Agatha

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