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

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Shakespeare, William

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Cope, Wendy

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

10.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Cass, Eli

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

Bible

17.

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

Rahel

18.

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.

19.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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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

21.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

26.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

27.

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

Marx, Groucho

28.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

29.

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

Meyers, Ernest

30.

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

Paul, Jean

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

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

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

38.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

39.

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

Christie, Agatha

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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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

42.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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