Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

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

Carter, Lillian

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Greier, John

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Cato The Elder

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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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 way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Palmer, R.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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