Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Chopra, Deepak

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

10.

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

11.

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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

13.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

16.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

18.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

20.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Kronenberger, Louis

25.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

26.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

27.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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

29.

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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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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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

34.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

Young, Edward

36.

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

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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.

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Palmer, R.

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

50.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol