Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Burke, Billie

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Powell, Anthony

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Burns, George

10.

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

Meir, Golda

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Updike, John

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

Brown, Les

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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 wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

40.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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.

42.

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

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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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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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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