Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Ullman, Samuel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

10.

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

11.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Burke, Billie

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

15.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

19.

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.

20.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

27.

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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Turner, Tina

30.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

31.

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

Powell, Anthony

32.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

35.

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 refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.