Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Selznick, Irene Mayer

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Ball, Lucille

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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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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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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 age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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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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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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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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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Ullman, Samuel

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander