Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Ball, Lucille

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

10.

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

Brookner, Anita

11.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

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

Ullman, Samuel

17.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

18.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

20.

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

21.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

24.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

25.

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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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

29.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

34.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

35.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

36.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

38.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

39.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

40.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

41.

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

Richards, Keith

42.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

45.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.