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

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Burns, George

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

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Shakespeare, William

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Hoagland, Edward

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Billings, Josh

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Christie, Agatha

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Hope, Bob

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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