Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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

Young, Edward

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

10.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

11.

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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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Rostand, Jean

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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

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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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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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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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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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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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

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

38.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Disraeli, Benjamin