Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Richards, Keith

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Meir, Golda

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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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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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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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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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Proverb, Irish

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.