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

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Palmer, R.

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

Lerner, Max

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

Burns, George

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

13.

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

Philo

14.

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

Young, Edward

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

19.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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]

Bible

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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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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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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

26.

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

Day, Doris

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

35.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Billings, Josh

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.