Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Woolf, Virginia

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Meir, Golda

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

Day, Doris

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Young, Edward

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Lerner, Max

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.