Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Schulz, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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.

Weldon, Fay

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

14.

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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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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

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Brookner, Anita

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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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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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

30.

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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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

34.

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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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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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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

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb