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

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Palmer, Arnold

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Vaughan, Henry

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Powell, Anthony

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Ball, Lucille

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Hope, Bob

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin