Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

If youth knew; if age could.

- Estienne, Henri

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Day, Doris

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

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Einstein, Albert

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Burns, George

10.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

15.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

16.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

17.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

18.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

19.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Rahel

21.

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

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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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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

24.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Hoagland, Edward

27.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

28.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

29.

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

Hope, Bob

30.

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

31.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Trotsky, Leon

34.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

36.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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To grow old is to grow common. 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

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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

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

Brown, Les

44.

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

Ullman, Samuel

45.

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

Rostand, Jean

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

48.

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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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.