Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Palmer, Arnold

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.

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

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Burke, Billie

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

10.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Rostand, Jean

15.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

18.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

19.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

24.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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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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

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

28.

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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Burke, Billie

37.

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

Palmer, R.

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

39.

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

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Hope, Bob

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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

48.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Hazlitt, William