Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

- Faulkner, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Becker, May L.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Tholuck

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

10.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

11.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

12.

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

Hawn, Goldie

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

Hoagland, Edward

14.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

15.

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

Proverb

17.

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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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

19.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

20.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

21.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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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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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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

25.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

28.

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

Christie, Agatha

29.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

30.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

31.

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

Vaughan, Henry

32.

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

Burke, Billie

33.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

34.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

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

Day, Doris

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

42.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

43.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.