Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Vaughan, Henry

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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 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

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

12.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

15.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

20.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

21.

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

Proverb, Irish

22.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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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

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

31.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

32.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

34.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

37.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

39.

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

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

42.

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

Gabriel, Peter

43.

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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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.

45.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

46.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

49.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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