Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Age and aging

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Edwards, Tryon

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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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.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Young, Edward

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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

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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 real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Hope, Bob

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Richards, Keith