Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Kuhn, Maggie

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

10.

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

Collins, Mortimer

11.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

16.

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

Marx, Groucho

17.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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.

21.

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

Day, Doris

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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

26.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

28.

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

Burke, Billie

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

30.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

40.

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

Turner, Tina

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

43.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

44.

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

Lerner, Max

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

47.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Arden, Elizabeth