Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

- Oates, Joyce Carol

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Powell, Anthony

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

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

Christie, Agatha

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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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

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

39.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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

Burns, George

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George 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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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

45.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

47.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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