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

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Hope, Bob

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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

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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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.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Burns, George

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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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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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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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.

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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

Marx, Groucho

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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