Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Billings, Josh

10.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

18.

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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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

Greier, John

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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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

24.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

25.

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

26.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

27.

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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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

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Vaughan, Henry

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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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Hope, Bob

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Mittleman, Stu

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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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.

48.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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