Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Paul, Jean

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

10.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Updike, John

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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

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

Wharton, Edith

18.

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 misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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

Billings, Josh

34.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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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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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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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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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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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

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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.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Brown, Captain J.

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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