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

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Richards, Keith

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

Burke, Billie

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Palmer, Arnold

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Lerner, Max

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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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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Brown, Captain J.

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Burns, George

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson