Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb

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

Nuveen, John

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

Byron, Lord

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

Burke, Billie

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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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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

39.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William