Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

- Haydon, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Age and aging

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

12.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Vaughan, Henry

15.

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

Collins, Mortimer

16.

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

Paul, Jean

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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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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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.

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

29.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Updike, John

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gabriel, Peter

43.

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

Nuveen, John

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

Billings, Josh

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.