Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Meyers, Ernest

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Hope, Bob

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

Carter, Lillian

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Lerner, Max

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Hope, Bob

17.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

18.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bible

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

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Hoagland, Edward

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Christie, Agatha

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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

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord