Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Lehrer, Tom

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Landor, Walter Savage

25.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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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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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Young, Edward

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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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

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence