Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Mortimer, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Trotsky, Leon

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)

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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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

11.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

18.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Defoe, Daniel

22.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Powell, Anthony

25.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

28.

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

29.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Young, Edward

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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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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

38.

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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

43.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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