Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Meir, Golda

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

11.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

13.

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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

15.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

17.

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

Burns, George

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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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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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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)

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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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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Christie, Agatha

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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

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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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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

42.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

43.

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

Burke, Billie

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

45.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

46.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert