Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

Cass, Eli

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hope, Bob

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

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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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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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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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Byron, Lord

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Turner, Tina