Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

- Curtis, George William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Rostand, Jean

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

18.

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

Burroughs, John

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

21.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

24.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Desmoulins, Camille

34.

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

Gabriel, Peter

35.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

37.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

39.

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

Hope, Bob

40.

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

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

48.

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

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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