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

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

Updike, John

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Ali, Muhammad

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

Becker, May L.

11.

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

12.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

13.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

15.

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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

21.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

22.

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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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

24.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

25.

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

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

29.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

38.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

39.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

40.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

43.

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

Fonda, Jane

44.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

45.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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