Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Sutzkever, Abraham

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Christie, Agatha

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Collins, Mortimer

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

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

Rahel

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

Kollwitz, KaThe