Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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 is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Burke, Billie

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Child, Lydia M.

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Dressler, Marie

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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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Shakespeare, William

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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