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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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

12.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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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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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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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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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Burke, Billie

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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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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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.