Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Burns, George

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

Gabriel, Peter

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Johnson

10.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

12.

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

Brookner, Anita

13.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

14.

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.

15.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

16.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

17.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

18.

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

Dressler, Marie

19.

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

20.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

21.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

22.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

23.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

24.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

25.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Meir, Golda

27.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

29.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

31.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

32.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

35.

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

Beckett, Samuel

36.

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

Brown, Les

37.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tholuck

43.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, 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

48.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

49.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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