Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Byron, Lord

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

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

Dressler, Marie

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Meir, Golda

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

Johnson

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Beckett, Samuel

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish