Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Becker, May L.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

13.

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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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Thurber, James

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

29.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

41.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Day, Doris

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne