Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

- Rahel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

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

Cope, Wendy

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Proverb

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Lerner, Max

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

Richards, Keith

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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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

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Billings, Josh

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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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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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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Kronenberger, Louis