Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Minds ripen at very different ages.

- Montagu, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Carey, Joyce

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hope, Bob

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

10.

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

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

12.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

15.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

16.

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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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

30.

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

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

32.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

33.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

34.

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

Woolf, Virginia

35.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

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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.

38.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

41.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Burke, Billie

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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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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

48.

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

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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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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.