Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

Burke, Billie

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

11.

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

12.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

13.

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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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

18.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hoagland, Edward

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Powell, Anthony

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.

34.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

42.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

47.

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

48.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Carter, Lillian