Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Vaughan, Henry

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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.

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

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Hoagland, Edward

10.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

11.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

12.

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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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Hope, Bob

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

Hope, Bob

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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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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

18.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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 man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

23.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Palmer, Arnold

29.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Brown, Les

39.

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

Cope, Wendy

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.