Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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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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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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Updike, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hope, Bob

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin