Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

- Defoe, Daniel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Hope, Bob

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lerner, Max

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Shakespeare, William

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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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

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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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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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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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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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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Swift, Jonathan