Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

- Romulo, Carlos Pena

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

11.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

12.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

13.

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

Ball, Lucille

14.

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

Hope, Bob

15.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

21.

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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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

25.

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

Brown, Captain J.

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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.

27.

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

Day, Doris

28.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

29.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schulz, Charles M.

32.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

41.

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

Cass, Eli

42.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

43.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

46.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?