Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Cato The Elder

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

13.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Greier, John

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

Hope, Bob

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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gabriel, Peter

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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

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.