Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Growing old is not growing up.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

Moreau, Jeanne

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Astaire, Fred

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

11.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

13.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

15.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

20.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

24.

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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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

Collins, Mortimer

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

31.

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

Young, Edward

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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

Mittleman, Stu

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

40.

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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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To grow old is to grow common. 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