Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Byron, Lord

10.

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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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Woolf, Virginia

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Hope, Bob

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Young, Edward

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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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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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Lerner, Max

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Steele, Sir Richard

37.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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