Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

- Engel, Sigmund Z.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Brown, Les

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

Meir, Golda

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mortimer, John

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

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

10.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

11.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

12.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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

15.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

18.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

19.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

24.

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

25.

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

Woolf, Virginia

26.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

27.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

28.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

29.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Young, Edward

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

39.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

40.

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

Yeats, William Butler

41.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Billings, Josh

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

45.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy