Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Lerner, Max

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Lerner, Max

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

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.

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.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Young, Edward

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Christie, Agatha

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Beckett, Samuel

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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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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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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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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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