Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Hope, Bob

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Meir, Golda

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Carey, Joyce

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Proverb, Irish

18.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

21.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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

28.

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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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If youth knew; if age could.