Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

- Mittleman, Stu

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Beckett, Samuel

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ali, Muhammad

11.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Meir, Golda

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb

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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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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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

Dressler, Marie

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Palmer, R.

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Gabriel, Peter

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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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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.