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

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Richards, Keith

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

Collins, Mortimer

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.

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

10.

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

11.

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

Young, Edward

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

Brown, Les

15.

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

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

17.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

18.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hope, Bob

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Nicklaus, Jack

35.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

39.

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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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Burroughs, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De