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

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Burroughs, John

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

Dressler, Marie

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ball, Lucille

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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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

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Powell, Anthony

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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

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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

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

Bible

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul