Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Age and aging

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Yeats, William Butler

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Turner, Tina

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

Burke, Billie

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Burke, Billie

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

Rostand, Jean

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Cope, Wendy

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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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 men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Shakespeare, William

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord