Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Defoe, Daniel

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Tholuck

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Cope, Wendy

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.