Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Desmoulins, Camille

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Lerner, Max

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

Buck, Pearl S.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

10.

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

Carter, Lillian

11.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

13.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

14.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Burroughs, John

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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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 trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

30.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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

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

Brown, Captain J.

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.