Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

- Meir, Golda

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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

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

Bible

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Burke, Billie

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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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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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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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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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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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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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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.