Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It takes a long time to become young.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Brown, Les

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Carter, Lillian

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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 short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Palmer, R.

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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

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Bible

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

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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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Burke, Billie

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Wharton, Edith

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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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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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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.