Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Nicklaus, Jack

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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.

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Brown, Les

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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

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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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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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Christie, Agatha

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

Wordsworth, William

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.