Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Mcdonald, Trevor

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Stael, Germaine De

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Palmer, R.

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

Cope, Wendy

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hope, Bob

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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

Burns, George

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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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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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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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

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

Lerner, Max

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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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.