Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Age and aging

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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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 was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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

Dressler, Marie

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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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]

Bible

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.