Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Billings, Josh

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

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Defoe, Daniel

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

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

Burroughs, John

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

15.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

16.

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 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

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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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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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

29.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

30.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

33.

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

Yeats, William Butler

34.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

35.

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.

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

Astaire, Fred

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Bible

41.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

42.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

43.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

44.

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.

45.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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