Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Astaire, Fred

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

10.

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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

21.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Trotsky, Leon

23.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

25.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Burke, Billie

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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

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

34.

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

Cass, Eli

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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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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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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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

41.

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

Hope, Bob

42.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

43.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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 should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Swift, Jonathan

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler