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.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

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

15.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

16.

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.

17.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

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

Young, Edward

19.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

20.

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

Astaire, Fred

21.

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

22.

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

Turner, Tina

23.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

24.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

25.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

26.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

28.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

30.

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

31.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

Jung, Carl

33.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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

Christie, Agatha

37.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

38.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Swift, Jonathan

40.

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 delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

43.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

44.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Powell, Anthony

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.