Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Burke, Billie

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Burke, Billie

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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Becker, May L.

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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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.