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

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Burroughs, John

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

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

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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

Burke, Billie

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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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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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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

23.

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

Palmer, R.

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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To grow old is to grow common. 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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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Rostand, Jean

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

46.

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

Burns, George

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb