Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Gabriel, Peter

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

11.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Burns, George

17.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Burke, Billie

22.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

23.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

24.

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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Burke, Billie

29.

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

Collins, Mortimer

30.

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

31.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

32.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

34.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

35.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Powell, Anthony

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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

38.

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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

40.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

42.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

45.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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

49.

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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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William