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

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

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

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carter, Lillian

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

Wharton, Edith

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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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

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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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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.

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Hoagland, Edward