Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Rostand, Jean

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lerner, Max

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

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

Shakespeare, William

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Marx, Groucho

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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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

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Collins, Mortimer

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hope, Bob

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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