Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

- Richards, Keith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Cato The Elder

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Palmer, R.

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

24.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

25.

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

Proverb

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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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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.

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

29.

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

Hope, Bob

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

31.

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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Trotsky, Leon

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John