Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Palmer, Arnold

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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

Chevalier, Maurice

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Proverb

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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

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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.

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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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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 gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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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.

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Hope, Bob

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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 misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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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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

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.