Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Ray, Marie Beyon

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Tholuck

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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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

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

26.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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

28.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

30.

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

Day, Doris

31.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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.

33.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

34.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rahel

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

Wordsworth, William

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest