Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Kronenberger, Louis

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Greier, John

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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

Beckett, Samuel

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Christie, Agatha

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hope, Bob

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ray, Marie Beyon