Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

- Nicklaus, Jack

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Turner, Tina

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Woolf, Virginia

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.

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.

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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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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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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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

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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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.

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

27.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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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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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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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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

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

Proverb

42.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis