Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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

10.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

13.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

14.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

15.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

Edwards, Tryon

20.

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

21.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.

24.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

25.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

26.

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

Swift, Jonathan

27.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

28.

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

Christie, Agatha

29.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

31.

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

Nuveen, John

32.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

33.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

34.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

44.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

48.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

49.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter