Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Browning, Robert

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

10.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

12.

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

13.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

14.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

15.

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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

18.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

19.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

20.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Updike, John

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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.

23.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

24.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

25.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

32.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

41.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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

44.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

45.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

46.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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

49.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.