Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

10.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Burroughs, John

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

Greier, John

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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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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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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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.

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

32.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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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

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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

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Meir, Golda

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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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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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

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Defoe, Daniel