Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Burns, George

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Philo

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

10.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

11.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

13.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

Brookner, Anita

16.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

17.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

18.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

20.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

21.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

22.

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

Brown, Captain J.

23.

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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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

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

Richards, Keith

29.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

31.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Desmoulins, Camille

33.

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

Updike, John

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

36.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

37.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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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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

41.

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

Carey, Joyce

42.

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

43.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

44.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Gabriel, Peter

47.

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

48.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

50.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel