Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Fonda, Jane

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

12.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hoagland, Edward

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

15.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

16.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

17.

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

Turner, Tina

18.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

Wharton, Edith

21.

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

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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.

24.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

25.

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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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

28.

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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

30.

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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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

32.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

33.

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

34.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

38.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

39.

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

40.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

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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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

47.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

48.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

49.

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

50.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von