Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

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

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Richards, Keith

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Irish

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Brown, Captain J.

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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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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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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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Burke, Billie

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

Rostand, Jean