Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Hope, Bob

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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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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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

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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