Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hope, Bob

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Cope, Wendy

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Burke, Billie

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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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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert