Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hoagland, Edward

Best Quotes about Age and aging

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

10.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

11.

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

Lerner, Max

12.

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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Carey, Joyce

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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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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Brown, Captain J.

21.

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

Palmer, R.

22.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Einstein, Albert

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

34.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

36.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Richards, Keith

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

Proverb

40.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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

Wharton, Edith

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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

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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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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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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena