Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Ball, Lucille

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Palmer, R.

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

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

Collins, Mortimer

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Christie, Agatha

11.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

12.

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

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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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

18.

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

Cass, Eli

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

33.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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