Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Brown, Les

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

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Limbaugh, Rush

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

11.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Ullman, Samuel

28.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Greier, John

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

Paul, Jean

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Carter, Lillian

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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