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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hazlitt, William

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Billings, Josh

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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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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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

33.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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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.

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.