Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Buruch, Andre B.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Durrell, Lawrence

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

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)

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

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Burke, Billie

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Burns, George

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Richards, Keith

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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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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Cope, Wendy

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Mortimer, John

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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