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

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

Hope, Bob

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

Brown, Captain J.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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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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.

22.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

24.

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

Hope, Bob

25.

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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Jung, Carl

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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

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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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

34.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Byron, Lord

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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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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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

46.

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

Ball, Lucille

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