Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Meyers, Ernest

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Carey, Joyce

10.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

13.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

14.

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

15.

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

Lerner, Max

16.

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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

18.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

22.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

25.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

26.

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

Rostand, Jean

27.

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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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

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

30.

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

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

33.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

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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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

Kronenberger, Louis

37.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

42.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

43.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

44.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

45.

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

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Burke, Billie

47.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

48.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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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.