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

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Brown, Les

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

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

10.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

11.

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

Turner, Tina

12.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

14.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

15.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

16.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

17.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

18.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

20.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

21.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

22.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Cope, Wendy

26.

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

27.

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.

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

Powell, Anthony

30.

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

Mittleman, Stu

31.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

32.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

33.

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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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

37.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

38.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

39.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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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

42.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

44.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

45.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

46.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

48.

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

Brown, Captain J.

49.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

50.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John