Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Meir, Golda

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Bible

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Burke, Billie

31.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb