Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Age and aging

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Christie, Agatha

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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

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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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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cass, Eli

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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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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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.