Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is a shipwreck.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Mittleman, Stu

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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 isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, 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

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Philo

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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