Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Age and aging

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

10.

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

11.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

12.

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

Burke, Billie

13.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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

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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

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

17.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

18.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

19.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

20.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

22.

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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

24.

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

Mittleman, Stu

25.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

30.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

31.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

32.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

33.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

34.

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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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

40.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

41.

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

Updike, John

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

44.

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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

49.

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 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