Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age considers; youth ventures.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Age and aging

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Burns, George

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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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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]

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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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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

35.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Burke, Billie

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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

Yeats, William Butler

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