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

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

Woolf, Virginia

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

Greier, John

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

11.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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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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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

21.

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

Day, Doris

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

25.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Brown, Captain J.

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hoagland, Edward

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Ullman, Samuel

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo