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

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

Moreau, Jeanne

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Wharton, Edith

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

12.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Defoe, Daniel

14.

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

Hope, Bob

15.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

16.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

18.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

19.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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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

23.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

24.

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

Burke, Billie

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

29.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

30.

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

Swift, Jonathan

31.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

32.

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

Brown, Les

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Updike, John

38.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

39.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

40.

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

41.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

42.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

43.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, 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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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

48.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie