Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

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

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

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

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

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Chevalier, Maurice

10.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

11.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

18.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

Christie, Agatha

22.

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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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

24.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

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

Hazlitt, William

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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.

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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

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

45.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

49.

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

Collins, Mortimer

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)