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

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 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 keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Hope, Bob

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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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

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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.

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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

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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Palmer, R.

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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.