Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

- Kronenberger, Louis

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Burke, Billie

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Bible

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

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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

Cass, Eli

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

10.

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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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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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

13.

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

Young, Edward

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

Day, Doris

16.

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

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

29.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

30.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Collins, Mortimer

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

38.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

39.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Wordsworth, William

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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 you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie