Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

- Harrison, Jane

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

Meir, Golda

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

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

11.

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

Burns, George

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

13.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Burke, Billie

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

25.

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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

29.

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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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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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Burke, Billie

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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

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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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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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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Trotsky, Leon

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