Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

- Romulo, Carlos Pena

Best Quotes about Age and aging

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Christie, Agatha

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Meir, Golda

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

10.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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.

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

16.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Rahel

18.

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

Burns, George

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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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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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]

Bible

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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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

43.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Burns, George

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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

Browning, Robert