Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

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

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

22.

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

Day, Doris

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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.