Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Burke, Billie

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Young, Edward

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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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

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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

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

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

Nuveen, John

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Byron, Lord

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

45.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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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.

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan