Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

- Dressler, Marie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Paul, Jean

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Moreau, Jeanne

10.

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

Cass, Eli

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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

14.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

16.

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

Mortimer, John

17.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

18.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

19.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

20.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

21.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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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

29.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

32.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

34.

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

Burns, George

35.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

36.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

41.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

49.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.