Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Day, Doris

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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?

Byron, Lord

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

18.

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

Palmer, Arnold

19.

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

Ball, Lucille

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Bible

22.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

27.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

29.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

31.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

33.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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