Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Woolf, Virginia

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Astaire, Fred

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Marx, Groucho

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Christie, Agatha

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Young, Edward

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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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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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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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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Burke, Billie

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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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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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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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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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.

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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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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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.