Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Christie, Agatha

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.

Meredith, George

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

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

11.

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

Meyers, Ernest

12.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

14.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

15.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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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

18.

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

19.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

20.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

21.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

22.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

24.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

25.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

28.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

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

Carey, Joyce

34.

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

35.

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

Palmer, Arnold

36.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

38.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

39.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

40.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

41.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

43.

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

Mittleman, Stu

44.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

46.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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

49.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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