Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Age and aging

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Becker, May L.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Wordsworth, William

10.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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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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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

14.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

15.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

16.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

17.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

19.

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

Brown, Captain J.

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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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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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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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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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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

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

Desmoulins, Camille

28.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

29.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Swift, Jonathan

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Beckett, Samuel

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Woolf, Virginia

41.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

42.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Carey, Joyce