Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

- Senn, J. P.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Thurber, James

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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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

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Lehrer, Tom

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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.

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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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

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Burns, George

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan