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

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

11.

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

Burroughs, John

12.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

19.

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

Burke, Billie

20.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

21.

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

22.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

23.

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

Updike, John

24.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

25.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

26.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Irish

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

34.

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

Stael, Germaine De

35.

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 is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

37.

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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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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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

44.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

45.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

48.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kronenberger, Louis