Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Richards, Keith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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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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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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

17.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Byron, Lord

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

Hope, Bob

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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.

23.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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