Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

- Steele, Sir Richard

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Kronenberger, Louis

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Burroughs, John

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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

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Burns, George

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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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

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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