Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

- Dana, Bill

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Palmer, R.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cato The Elder

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

10.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

11.

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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

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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.

14.

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

Burke, Billie

15.

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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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

17.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

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

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

20.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

21.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

24.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

26.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

27.

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

Hope, Bob

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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

32.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

33.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

34.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

35.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

41.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

42.

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

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

45.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

49.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel