Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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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Best Quotes about Age and aging

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Johnson

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

11.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

14.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

20.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

21.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

22.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

24.

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

25.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

26.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

27.

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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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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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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.

33.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Meyers, Ernest

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

36.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Swift, Jonathan

38.

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

Turner, Tina

39.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

42.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Updike, John

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

Hawn, Goldie

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William