Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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.

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

Carey, Joyce

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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)

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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

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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

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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

Greier, John

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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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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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Burns, George

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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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

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

Wharton, Edith

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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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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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert