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

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Hoagland, Edward

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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 a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Greier, John

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

Dressler, Marie

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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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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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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

Burke, Billie

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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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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