Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Powell, Anthony

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

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

10.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

11.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

15.

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

Vaughan, Henry

16.

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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

18.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

19.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

20.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

21.

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

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

23.

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

24.

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

Philo

26.

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

Carey, Joyce

27.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

28.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

29.

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

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

32.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

33.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

34.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

35.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brookner, Anita

43.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

Cope, Wendy

45.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

48.

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

Burke, Billie

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.