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

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

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Steele, Sir Richard

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Bunuel, Luis

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Carter, Lillian

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lerner, Max

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Woolf, Virginia

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Wharton, Edith

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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

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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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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Kanin, Garson

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Gabriel, Peter

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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille