Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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)

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.

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

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Trotsky, Leon

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Greier, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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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.

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Stael, Germaine De

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

30.

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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

32.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

Paul, Jean

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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.

39.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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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

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Gabriel, Peter

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.