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 woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

10.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

11.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

12.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Richards, Keith

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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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

17.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

18.

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

Christie, Agatha

19.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

20.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

21.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

24.

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

Ali, Muhammad

25.

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

Burns, George

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

29.

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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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

33.

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

Carter, Lillian

34.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

35.

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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Browning, Robert

38.

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.

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

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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.

45.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

47.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

49.

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

Hope, Bob

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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