Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Ray, Marie Beyon

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Pepper, Claude D.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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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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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.

19.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

20.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cope, Wendy

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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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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

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

Hope, Bob

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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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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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

47.

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

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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

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach