Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Live your life and forget your age.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

15.

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

Rostand, Jean

16.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

17.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

18.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

19.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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

21.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

24.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

25.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

29.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

30.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

31.

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

32.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

33.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

34.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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]

Bible

36.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

37.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

38.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Christie, Agatha

43.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Carter, Lillian

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