Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Richards, Keith

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

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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 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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

10.

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

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

13.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

15.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

16.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

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

Brookner, Anita

18.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

20.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

21.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

22.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

24.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

26.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

27.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

28.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

30.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

31.

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

Cope, Wendy

32.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

33.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

34.

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

35.

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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

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

40.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

41.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

42.

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

Wordsworth, William

43.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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 is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

46.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

49.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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