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

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Brown, Les

10.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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

12.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

13.

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

Ullman, Samuel

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

18.

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

Lerner, Max

19.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

20.

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

Browning, Robert

21.

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

Dressler, Marie

22.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

23.

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

24.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

25.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Philo

34.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

35.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

36.

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

Ball, Lucille

37.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

38.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

40.

To grow old is to grow common. 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

41.

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

Bunuel, Luis

42.

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

43.

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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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

45.

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

Hope, Bob

46.

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

Wharton, Edith

47.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

49.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Yeats, William Butler