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

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Carter, Lillian

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Twain, Mark

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Rahel

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

31.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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.

33.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

Wordsworth, William

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David