Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Lerner, Max

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

11.

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

Meir, Golda

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Billings, Josh

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Billings, Josh

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carter, Lillian

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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

29.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

33.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

34.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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

38.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

40.

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

Paul, Jean

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan