Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Brown, Les

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Burke, Billie

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

11.

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 keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

13.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

15.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

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

17.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

18.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

19.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

24.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

25.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Limbaugh, Rush

31.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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

Rostand, Jean

33.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

37.

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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

39.

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

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

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

42.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

44.

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

45.

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

46.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

47.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

48.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

49.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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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.