Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Powell, Anthony

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Billings, Josh

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

Arden, Elizabeth

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

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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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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Turner, Tina

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Bible

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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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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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 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

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

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

Carter, Lillian

38.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

44.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Cope, Wendy

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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.

50.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter