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

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

Hope, Bob

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

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Paul, Jean

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Cope, Wendy

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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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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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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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.