Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Desmoulins, Camille

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

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

Burns, George

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

10.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

12.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

13.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

20.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Chevalier, Maurice

22.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

23.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. 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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

26.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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

29.

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

Mittleman, Stu

30.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

31.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

33.

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

Ullman, Samuel

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

38.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

39.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

41.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

46.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

47.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

49.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

50.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.