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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

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.

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)

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Billings, Josh

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Brookner, Anita

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carey, Joyce

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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Byron, Lord

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hope, Bob

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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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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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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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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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.