Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Moreau, Jeanne

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

Hope, Bob

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

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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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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

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Cass, Eli

18.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

19.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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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

22.

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hope, Bob

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

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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 ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Burns, George

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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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

40.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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.

49.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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