Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Pepper, Claude D.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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

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

Lerner, Max

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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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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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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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

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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.

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

Bible

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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

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

Cass, Eli

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

Marx, Groucho

39.

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

Day, Doris

40.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Hope, Bob

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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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

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

Stael, Germaine De

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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