Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hope, Bob

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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Wordsworth, William

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

Jung, Carl

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

29.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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 wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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

Day, Doris

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

Richards, Keith

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Burke, Billie

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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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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

48.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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