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

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.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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

Ali, Muhammad

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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.

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

11.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carter, Lillian

15.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

16.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

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

Turner, Tina

20.

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

21.

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

Burns, George

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

Burke, Billie

30.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

32.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

33.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

34.

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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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 men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

40.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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