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

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

Wordsworth, William

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Fonda, Jane

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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

11.

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

Ali, Muhammad

12.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

16.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

17.

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

Hope, Bob

18.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

19.

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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Burke, Billie

22.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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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.

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

29.

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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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

31.

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

Woolf, Virginia

32.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

33.

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

Burroughs, John

34.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wharton, Edith

36.

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

37.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

39.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

46.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

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