Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Mcdonald, Trevor

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Becker, May L.

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

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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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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

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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

Young, Edward

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Hope, Bob

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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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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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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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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, 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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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob