Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

- Kennedy, Rose F.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

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

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

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

Turner, Tina

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

16.

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

Day, Doris

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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 bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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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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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

46.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord