Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cope, Wendy

19.

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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

25.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

27.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

28.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

29.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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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 not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Carter, Lillian

35.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Burke, Billie

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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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

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.