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

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

10.

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

11.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

14.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

15.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

20.

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

21.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

22.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

23.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

27.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Gabriel, Peter

33.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

34.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

35.

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

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

39.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

40.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Mortimer, John

43.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

44.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

47.

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

48.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

49.

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

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia