Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Burke, Billie

10.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

11.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

12.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

13.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

15.

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

16.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

18.

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

Browning, Robert

19.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

21.

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

22.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

23.

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

Chopra, Deepak

24.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

25.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

29.

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

Dressler, Marie

30.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

32.

Beauvoir, Simone De

33.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

34.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

35.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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]

Bible

37.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

38.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

39.

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

Lerner, Max

40.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

41.

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

Fonda, Jane

42.

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

Defoe, Daniel

43.

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

44.

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

Edwards, Tryon

45.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

47.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

50.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord