Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Being seventy is not a sin.

- Meir, Golda

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Einstein, Albert

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

10.

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

Turner, Tina

11.

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

Beckett, Samuel

12.

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

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

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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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hope, Bob

22.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Brown, Les

28.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

31.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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

35.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

36.

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 short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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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.

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

45.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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

48.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

49.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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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.