Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

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

Rostand, Jean

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Ullman, Samuel

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

10.

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

Cass, Eli

11.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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.

Ullman, 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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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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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.

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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

20.

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 things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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

25.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

32.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

33.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

46.

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

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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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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, Les