Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Gabriel, Peter

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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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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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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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Carter, Lillian

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Burns, George

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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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

38.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Palmer, R.

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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.

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

Wharton, Edith

43.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti