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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

10.

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

11.

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

Burke, Billie

12.

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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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

14.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

16.

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

Mortimer, John

17.

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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

20.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

21.

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

Yeats, William Butler

23.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

24.

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

Tholuck

25.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

27.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Becker, May L.

31.

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Rahel

38.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

39.

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

Burroughs, John

40.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

42.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

43.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Greier, John

46.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max