Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Rahel

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Yeats, William Butler

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Brown, Captain J.

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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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

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Meir, Golda

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

Young, Edward

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

Einstein, Albert

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Greier, John

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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