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

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

Buruch, Andre B.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hope, Bob

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

10.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

11.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

12.

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

Carter, Lillian

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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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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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

28.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

30.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

34.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

35.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

36.

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

Burke, Billie

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Meyers, Ernest

40.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Old age is a shipwreck.