Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Billings, Josh

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Woolf, Virginia

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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

Tholuck

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Young, Edward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Collins, Mortimer

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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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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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Richards, Keith

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Burke, Billie

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

48.

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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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 married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha