Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Powell, Anthony

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Brown, Les

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dressler, Marie

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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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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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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.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

Hope, Bob

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Paul, Jean

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Wharton, Edith

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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