Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

- Hershfield, Harry

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Browning, Robert

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

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

Updike, John

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

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Buck, Pearl S.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

10.

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

11.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

14.

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.

15.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

16.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

25.

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

Byron, Lord

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

31.

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

Greier, John

32.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

33.

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

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

37.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

38.

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

39.

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

Cope, Wendy

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

43.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

44.

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

Kanin, Garson

46.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

47.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

48.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang