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

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Nuveen, John

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

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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.

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

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

13.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Moreau, Jeanne

17.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

18.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

20.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

25.

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

26.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

27.

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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

29.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

30.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

31.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

32.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

34.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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.

38.

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

Proverb

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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.

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

43.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

44.

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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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

46.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

49.

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

Fonda, Jane

50.

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