Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

10.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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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

14.

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

Day, Doris

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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

17.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

18.

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

Beckett, Samuel

19.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

21.

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

Cope, Wendy

22.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

23.

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

24.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

25.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

26.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

27.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

28.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hope, Bob

34.

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

Hugo, Victor

35.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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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.

Kangas, Steve

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Gabriel, Peter

41.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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

Fonda, Jane

48.

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

49.

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

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset