Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Collins, Mortimer

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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

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

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

10.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

13.

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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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

19.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

20.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

21.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

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

Young, Edward

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

Steele, Sir Richard

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

28.

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

Burke, Billie

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

39.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Burke, Billie

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.