Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

Senn, J. P.

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

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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

Burke, Billie

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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To grow old is to grow common. 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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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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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

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Vaughan, Henry

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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 things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

Meyers, Ernest

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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