Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

- Nuveen, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

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

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

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

10.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

20.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

21.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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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.

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

Christie, Agatha

24.

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

Chopra, Deepak

25.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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

Rahel

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

40.

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

Cass, Eli

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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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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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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wharton, Edith

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Mortimer, John

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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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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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