Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Sutzkever, Abraham

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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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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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.