Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mortimer, John

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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Defoe, Daniel

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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

Marx, Groucho

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Billings, Josh

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Kanin, Garson

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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

Lehrer, Tom