Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

- Stone, I. F.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moreau, Jeanne

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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.

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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

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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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

Brookner, Anita

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Beckett, Samuel

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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 depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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