Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Collins, Mortimer

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Richards, Keith

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

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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 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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Burns, George

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

Cope, Wendy

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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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.

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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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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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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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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