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

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

Rahel

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

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Browning, Robert

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

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

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

11.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

Johnson

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

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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

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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

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rostand, Jean

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Paul, Jean

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Schulz, Charles M.

40.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Lerner, Max

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Kuhn, Maggie