Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Swift, Jonathan

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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

Christie, Agatha

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Billings, Josh

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

Woolf, Virginia

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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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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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Brookner, Anita

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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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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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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

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

44.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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.

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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.