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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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

Burke, Billie

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

Desmoulins, Camille

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

20.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

21.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

22.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Meyers, Ernest

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

25.

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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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Billings, Josh

31.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Burns, George

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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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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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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

44.

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

Turner, Tina

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.