Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Defoe, Daniel

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Hope, Bob

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

Christie, Agatha

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Turner, Tina

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cass, Eli

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

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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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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

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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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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

30.

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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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.

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Marx, Groucho

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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How can I die? I'm booked.