Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

Durrell, Lawrence

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Chopra, Deepak

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Richards, Keith

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Updike, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

28.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

29.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Palmer, R.

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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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

42.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul