Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

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

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

14.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

15.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

17.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

25.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

26.

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

27.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

28.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

31.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

35.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Desmoulins, Camille

39.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Vaughan, Henry

42.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

43.

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

Browning, Robert

44.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

46.

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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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

49.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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