Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

- Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Cope, Wendy

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Palmer, R.

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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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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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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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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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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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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

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.