Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Proverb, Irish

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Hope, Bob

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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Rostand, Jean

31.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl