Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Steele, Sir Richard

Best Quotes about Age and aging

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

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

Astaire, Fred

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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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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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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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.

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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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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Meir, Golda

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

45.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

46.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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