Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Chopra, Deepak

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

Edwards, Tryon

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

10.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

15.

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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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

18.

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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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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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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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

25.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

28.

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

Hoagland, Edward

29.

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

Young, Edward

30.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

31.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Defoe, Daniel

37.

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

Wharton, Edith

38.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

43.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

47.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

48.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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