Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Kollwitz, KaThe

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Cato The Elder

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Turner, Tina

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Proverb

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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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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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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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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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Palmer, R.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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

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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

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.