Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Minds ripen at very different ages.

- Montagu, Elizabeth

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

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Astaire, Fred

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

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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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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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bible

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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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

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

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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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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Collins, Mortimer

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hope, Bob

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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

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

Burke, Billie

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Christie, Agatha

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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