Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

11.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

15.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

18.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

19.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

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

Turner, Tina

23.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Fonda, Jane

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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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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Browning, Robert

34.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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 like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

Jung, Carl

45.

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

46.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

47.

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

48.

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

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily