Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

- Tusser, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Dressler, Marie

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Tusser, Thomas

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Burke, Billie

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kanin, Garson

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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)

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Cass, Eli

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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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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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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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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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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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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin