Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Burke, Billie

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

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

11.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

15.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

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

Bible

18.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

25.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

26.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

27.

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.

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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.

30.

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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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lerner, Max

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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

42.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

45.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey