Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Moreau, Jeanne

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Palmer, R.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Cass, Eli

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

19.

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Burke, Billie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Philo

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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.

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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Lerner, Max

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Day, Doris

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter