Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Johnson

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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.

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Carey, Joyce

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Kanin, Garson

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Burke, Billie

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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

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

Richards, Keith