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

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Browning, Robert

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Chopra, Deepak

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Palmer, R.

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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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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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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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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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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Kuhn, Maggie

25.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

Rahel

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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.

30.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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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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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Burroughs, John

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad