Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

- Wharton, Edith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Vaughan, Henry

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

13.

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

Child, Lydia M.

14.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

17.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

18.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

19.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

20.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

22.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

23.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

25.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

28.

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

29.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

30.

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

Ball, Lucille

31.

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.

32.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

33.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Trotsky, Leon

37.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

39.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

40.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

41.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

43.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

44.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

45.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

Gabriel, Peter

49.

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

Burke, Billie

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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