Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

Byron, Lord

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

Christie, Agatha

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Greier, John

11.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

14.

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

Cass, Eli

15.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

16.

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

Burke, Billie

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Jung, Carl

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Meir, Golda

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mittleman, Stu

30.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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

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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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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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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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

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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

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Bible

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit