Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Limbaugh, Rush

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Fonda, Jane

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

11.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

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

Hoagland, Edward

13.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Jung, Carl

15.

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

16.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

17.

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

18.

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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

20.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Hope, Bob

24.

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

Christie, Agatha

25.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

33.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

34.

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

Burke, Billie

35.

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

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

40.

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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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

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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

45.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena