Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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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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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hope, Bob

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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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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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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.