Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Minds ripen at very different ages.

- Montagu, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

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

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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 carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

11.

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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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

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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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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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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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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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

35.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Paul, Jean

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.