Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

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

Jung, Carl

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Cass, Eli

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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O'Casey, Sean

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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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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Steele, Sir Richard

20.

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

Carter, Lillian

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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.

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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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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

29.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

30.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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

32.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

35.

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

Browning, Robert

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

37.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

38.

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

Hope, Bob

39.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

40.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

42.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

43.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

44.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

47.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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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.

50.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy