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

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Nuveen, John

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

Paul, Jean

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Young, Edward

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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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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

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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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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Powell, Anthony

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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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

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

32.

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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Ball, Lucille

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Hope, Bob

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil