Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

- Turner, Tina

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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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

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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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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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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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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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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Paul, Jean

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

Burke, Billie

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Wharton, Edith

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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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.

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

Burke, Billie

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Cass, Eli

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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