Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Carter, Lillian

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Trotsky, Leon

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Proverb, Irish

17.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Greier, John

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Hope, Bob

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rahel

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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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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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.