Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is a shipwreck.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about 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

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Chopra, Deepak

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Woolf, Virginia

10.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Meyers, Ernest

16.

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

Day, Doris

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

21.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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.

23.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

24.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Woolf, Virginia

26.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

36.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

39.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard