Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schulz, Charles M.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Meyers, Ernest

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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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

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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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

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mittleman, Stu

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Hoagland, Edward

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Updike, John

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Burns, George

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

Powell, Anthony

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

43.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Astaire, Fred