Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The trick is growing up without growing old.

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Jennings, Elizabeth

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hope, Bob

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Rahel

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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 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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

Fonda, Jane

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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

Astaire, Fred

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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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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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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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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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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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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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl