Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Being seventy is not a sin.

- Meir, Golda

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Palmer, R.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rostand, Jean

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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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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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

43.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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 aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach