Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lerner, Max

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

Burke, Billie

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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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

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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

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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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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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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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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Growing old is not growing up.