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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Becker, May L.

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

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Mittleman, Stu

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Turner, Tina

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Burke, Billie

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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Swift, Jonathan

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Palmer, R.

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie