Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Hope, Bob

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

Shakespeare, William

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)

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Updike, John

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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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

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Moreau, Jeanne

31.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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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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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Burke, Billie

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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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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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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Ray, Marie Beyon