Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Age and aging

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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

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

Fonda, Jane

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

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

12.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

13.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Nuveen, John

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

Yeats, William Butler

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Burns, George

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

30.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Limbaugh, Rush

34.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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

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

Young, Edward

42.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.