Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Age and aging

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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)

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Byron, Lord

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Greier, John

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Turner, Tina

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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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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Bible

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

Young, Edward

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

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Marx, Groucho

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.