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

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

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

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

Carter, Lillian

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

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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 comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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 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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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Captain J.

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.