Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Astaire, Fred

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Carey, Joyce

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Proverb

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Brookner, Anita

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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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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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Burke, Billie

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.