Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Kanin, Garson

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

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

Palmer, R.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mittleman, Stu

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

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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

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

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.

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

33.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Child, Lydia M.

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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