Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The trick is growing up without growing old.

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Age and aging

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Beckett, Samuel

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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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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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Ali, Muhammad

14.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Steele, Sir Richard

17.

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

Carter, Lillian

18.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

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

Powell, Anthony

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

28.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

29.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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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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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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