Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

- Pepper, Claude D.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Johnson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Palmer, R.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

10.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Meyers, Ernest

12.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

13.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

14.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

15.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Yeats, William Butler

17.

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

18.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

19.

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

Defoe, Daniel

20.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

21.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

22.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

23.

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

24.

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.

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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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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

28.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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

30.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

31.

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

Proverb

33.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

35.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

36.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

37.

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

38.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

39.

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

40.

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

Swift, Jonathan

41.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

42.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Rahel

46.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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