Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Paul, Jean

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

15.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

18.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Swift, Jonathan

22.

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

Dressler, Marie

23.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Byron, Lord

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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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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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

41.

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

Brown, Les

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

Turner, Tina

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

47.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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