Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

11.

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

Ullman, Samuel

12.

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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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

15.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

17.

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

20.

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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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

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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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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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

31.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

32.

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

Proverb, Irish

33.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

35.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Bible

39.

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

Ball, Lucille

40.

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.

41.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

42.

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

Hazlitt, William

43.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Mittleman, Stu

47.

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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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