Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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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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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Burke, Billie

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kanin, Garson

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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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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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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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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Powell, Anthony

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Collins, Mortimer