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

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Wharton, Edith

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

10.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

12.

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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Turner, Tina

15.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

18.

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

Burke, Billie

19.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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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

21.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Richards, Keith

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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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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

27.

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

Wordsworth, William

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Defoe, Daniel

32.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Browning, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

37.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

38.

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

Burke, Billie

39.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Cass, Eli

41.

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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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

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Burroughs, John

48.

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

49.

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

Rostand, Jean