Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Billings, Josh

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

10.

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

Burns, George

11.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

14.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

15.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

16.

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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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

18.

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

Rostand, Jean

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

22.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

25.

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

27.

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

Burke, Billie

28.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

32.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

33.

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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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.

36.

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

Mittleman, Stu

37.

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

Cass, Eli

38.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

41.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

42.

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.

43.

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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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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