Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Arden, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Thurber, James

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

10.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

15.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Ball, Lucille

17.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hope, Bob

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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

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

26.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

27.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

Burke, Billie

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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

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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

33.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

43.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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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

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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German