Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Carter, Lillian

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

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Shakespeare, William

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Palmer, R.

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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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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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.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

38.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.