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

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

Brown, Les

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

Burke, Billie

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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

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

Kanin, Garson

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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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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

18.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

30.

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

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

35.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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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

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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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

47.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Day, Doris