Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Billings, Josh

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Burke, Billie

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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

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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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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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

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Dressler, Marie

40.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Nuveen, John

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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

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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.

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

Woolf, Virginia