Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about 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

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Vaughan, Henry

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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

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.

10.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

11.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

12.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Collins, Mortimer

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

22.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

28.

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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

32.

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

Edwards, Tryon

33.

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.

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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 woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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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

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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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

49.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson