Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

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.

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

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Billings, Josh

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Yeats, William Butler

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Burke, Billie

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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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 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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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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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

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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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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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson