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

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Mortimer, John

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

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

Chopra, Deepak

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

11.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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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

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Bible

22.

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.

23.

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.

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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

25.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

27.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

28.

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

29.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

33.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

34.

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

35.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

40.

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

41.

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

Meyers, Ernest

42.

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

Vaughan, Henry

43.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

45.

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

46.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Burke, Billie

49.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

50.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks