Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Rahel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Greier, John

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

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

Meir, Golda

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

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

Mortimer, John

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

Tholuck

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

Shakespeare, William

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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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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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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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 disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lerner, Max

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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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

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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

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

Mittleman, Stu

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.