Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Palmer, Arnold

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

13.

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

14.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

16.

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

Mortimer, John

17.

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

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

22.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

23.

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

Rostand, Jean

24.

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

25.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

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

29.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

30.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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 disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

34.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

35.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

36.

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

39.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

40.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

41.

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

Carter, Lillian

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

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

Wharton, Edith

45.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

48.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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