Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Burns, George

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Burns, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

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

Burke, Billie

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

Woolf, Virginia

24.

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

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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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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Christie, Agatha

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Pepper, Claude D.

50.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.