Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Johnson

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hoagland, Edward

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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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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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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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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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 lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Billings, Josh

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Buck, Pearl S.