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

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Marx, Groucho

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Rostand, Jean

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hope, Bob

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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 surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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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

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lerner, Max

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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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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

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage