Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

- Jennings, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Age and aging

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

10.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

11.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

12.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

13.

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

Yeats, William Butler

14.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

15.

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

Burke, Billie

16.

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

Wilde, Oscar

17.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

18.

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

19.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

21.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

22.

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

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

24.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

25.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

26.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

28.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

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

Mittleman, Stu

32.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

33.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

36.

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

Brown, Captain J.

37.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Nuveen, John

40.

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

41.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

42.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

43.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

45.

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

Brown, Les

46.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.

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

48.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

49.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

50.

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

Meyers, Ernest