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

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.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Hoagland, Edward

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Turner, Tina

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Kuhn, Maggie

15.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

18.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

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

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

24.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

25.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

27.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

28.

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

Burke, Billie

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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

30.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

31.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

32.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

33.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Byron, Lord

36.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

37.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

38.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

39.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

40.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Kanin, Garson

42.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Defoe, Daniel

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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