Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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.

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

Hoagland, Edward

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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

Mittleman, Stu

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

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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

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

Browning, Robert

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Byron, Lord

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

35.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Christie, Agatha

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

44.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Bible

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German