Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Bleasdale, Alan

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

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

12.

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

13.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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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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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

16.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Hope, Bob

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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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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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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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Lerner, Max

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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

42.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

Brookner, Anita

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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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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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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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.