Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Jung, Carl

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

10.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

17.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

18.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

19.

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

20.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

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

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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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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

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

30.

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

31.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

32.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson

39.

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

Vaughan, Henry

40.

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

41.

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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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.

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

49.

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

Brown, Les

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle