Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Becker, May L.

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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

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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.

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Powell, Anthony

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Browning, Robert

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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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

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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.