Motivational Quotes

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

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

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bleasdale, Alan

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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]

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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Arnold, Thomas

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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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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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

Hoagland, Edward

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Updike, John

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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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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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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Shakespeare, William

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tholuck

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les