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

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

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

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Astaire, Fred

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

Wharton, Edith

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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.

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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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

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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 is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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

Rahel

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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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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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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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

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

Defoe, Daniel