Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buck, Pearl S.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tholuck

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Young, Edward

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Christie, Agatha

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Wordsworth, William

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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