Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Carey, Joyce

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Palmer, R.

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

Paul, Jean

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

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

To grow old is to grow common. 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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Gabriel, Peter

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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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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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rahel

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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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.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Proverb

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Burroughs, John