Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Cope, Wendy

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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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

11.

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

Burke, Billie

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

20.

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

Brookner, Anita

21.

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

Richards, Keith

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

29.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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

36.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bleasdale, Alan

44.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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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

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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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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