Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Fonda, Jane

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Hazlitt, William

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

10.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

13.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

21.

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

Hope, Bob

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

23.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

24.

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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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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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Philo

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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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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Brown, Les

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Nuveen, John

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Young, Edward

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Burke, Billie

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

Defoe, Daniel