Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Day, Doris

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Bleasdale, Alan

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Woolf, Virginia

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

41.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Brown, Captain J.

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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