Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Burroughs, John

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Paul, Jean

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

Hugo, Victor

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

10.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

11.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

13.

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

Burns, George

15.

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

16.

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

Vaughan, Henry

17.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

18.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

19.

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

20.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

21.

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

Proverb, Irish

22.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

23.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

24.

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

Carey, Joyce

25.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

26.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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

28.

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

Day, Doris

29.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

30.

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

Burns, George

31.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

33.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

34.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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.

37.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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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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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Proverb

43.

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

Billings, Josh

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

47.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Live your life and forget your age.