Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Palmer, R.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Burns, George

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Christie, Agatha

10.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Burns, George

16.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

17.

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

19.

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

Woolf, Virginia

20.

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

21.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Brown, Captain J.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Greier, John

35.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

36.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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

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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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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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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

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti