Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

- Vaughan, Henry

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

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Rostand, Jean

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

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Hazlitt, William

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Richards, Keith

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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]

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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 does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

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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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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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 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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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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

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