Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Age and aging

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Cass, Eli

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

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

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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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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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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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Brookner, Anita

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Vaughan, Henry

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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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

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

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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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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Powell, Anthony

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel