Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

- Greier, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Tholuck

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

Brookner, Anita

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Bible

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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.

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

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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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Brown, Les

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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

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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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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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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