Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Johnson

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

Brown, Captain J.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

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

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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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Cope, Wendy

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Byron, Lord

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Defoe, Daniel

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel