Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Astaire, Fred

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

12.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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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

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Cass, Eli

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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 men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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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

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

46.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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.