Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

- Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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

Palmer, R.

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

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Stael, Germaine De

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

Cass, Eli

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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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

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

Jung, Carl

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Turner, Tina

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Marx, Groucho

30.

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

Cope, Wendy

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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.

39.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

40.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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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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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord