Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hope, Bob

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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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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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Dressler, Marie

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene