Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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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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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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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Astaire, Fred

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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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Thurber, James

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

Wordsworth, 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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Kanin, Garson

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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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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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Cope, Wendy

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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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 older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

49.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord