Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Becker, May L.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Dressler, Marie

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

11.

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

Wordsworth, William

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Fonda, Jane

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

16.

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

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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

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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

19.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

20.

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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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

Becker, May L.

23.

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

Lerner, Max

24.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

25.

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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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

27.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

30.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

31.

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

32.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

33.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

34.

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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

36.

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

Hawn, Goldie

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

40.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

41.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

46.

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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.