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

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

10.

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.

11.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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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.

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

28.

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

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Cass, Eli

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Hawn, Goldie

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Mittleman, Stu

43.

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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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

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

Christie, Agatha

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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To grow old is to grow common. 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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

Meir, Golda

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan