Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

- Wharton, Edith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Chevalier, Maurice

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

10.

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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

Hope, Bob

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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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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hope, Bob

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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

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

Powell, Anthony

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Burke, Billie

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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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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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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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