Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Kanin, Garson

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Trotsky, Leon

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Bible

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Updike, John

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Rostand, Jean

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Burke, Billie

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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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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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