Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Christie, Agatha

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Rahel

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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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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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Hoagland, Edward

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Meyers, Ernest

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De