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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

Wharton, Edith

13.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

15.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

16.

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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

19.

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

Young, Edward

20.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

21.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

22.

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.

23.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

24.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

25.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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

28.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

29.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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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

34.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

35.

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

Paul, Jean

36.

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

Cato The Elder

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

39.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

40.

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.

41.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

44.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

45.

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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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

49.

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

Burns, George

50.

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