Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

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

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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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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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Lehrer, Tom

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Nuveen, John

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Hope, Bob

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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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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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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

Powell, Anthony

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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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 value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Burns, George