Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about 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

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Durrell, Lawrence

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Greier, John

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

Johnson

10.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

12.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Chevalier, Maurice

17.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

18.

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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

20.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

21.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Christie, Agatha

24.

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

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

32.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

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

34.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Hope, Bob

37.

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

38.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

40.

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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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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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

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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.

45.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Tholuck

48.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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