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

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Billings, Josh

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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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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit