Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

- Kuhn, Maggie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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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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.

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wordsworth, William

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Burns, George

17.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

18.

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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

Burke, Billie

21.

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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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

25.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

26.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

27.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

29.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

31.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

32.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

37.

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

38.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

42.

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

Collins, Mortimer

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

44.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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

Carter, Lillian

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

48.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.