Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Age and aging

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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

11.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Burke, Billie

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

Palmer, R.

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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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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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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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

33.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

34.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

35.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

40.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

44.

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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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.

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel