Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The trick is growing up without growing old.

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Age and aging

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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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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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Young, Edward

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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

Burns, George

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Rostand, Jean

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don