Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The trick is growing up without growing old.

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Lerner, Max

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kuhn, Maggie

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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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.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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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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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

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Browning, Robert

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.