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

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Turner, Tina

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Bible

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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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

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

Cope, Wendy

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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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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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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

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

Burns, George

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Trotsky, Leon