Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Turner, Tina

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Shakespeare, William

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Palmer, R.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

10.

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

11.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

12.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

14.

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

Powell, Anthony

15.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

16.

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

17.

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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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

19.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

20.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

21.

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

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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

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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

24.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

25.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

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

27.

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

Hope, Bob

28.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

29.

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

30.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hugo, Victor

33.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

34.

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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

Hazlitt, William

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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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.

39.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

43.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

44.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

45.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

46.

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

Bible

47.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

48.

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

49.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

50.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom