Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

- Sayers, Dorothy L.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Johnson

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

10.

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

Woolf, Virginia

11.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

22.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

24.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

26.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

35.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Burns, George

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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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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean