Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Moreau, Jeanne

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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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.

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Palmer, R.

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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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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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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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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Rahel

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

Rostand, Jean

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie