Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Hugo, Victor

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Wharton, Edith

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

10.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Richards, Keith

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Shakespeare, William

14.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

18.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

19.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

25.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wordsworth, William

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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.

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

39.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Burns, George

42.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

48.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

49.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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