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

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Cato The Elder

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Brown, Les

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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

15.

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

Hazlitt, William

16.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

17.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

18.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

19.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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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.

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

34.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

41.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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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

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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