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

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Buruch, Andre B.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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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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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rahel

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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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Meir, Golda

32.

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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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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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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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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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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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

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

Richards, Keith