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

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

Billings, Josh

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Richards, Keith

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

Yeats, William Butler

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Collins, Mortimer

10.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

11.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

12.

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

Palmer, R.

13.

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

14.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

17.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

18.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

19.

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

Meir, Golda

20.

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

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

Vaughan, Henry

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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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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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

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

Christie, Agatha

28.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hope, Bob

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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 you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Ball, Lucille

40.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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

Rahel

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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

43.

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 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

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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

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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 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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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.