Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

- Powell, Anthony

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Greier, John

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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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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Becker, May L.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

46.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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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 must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle