Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Richards, Keith

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

Becker, May L.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

10.

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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Nuveen, John

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

Proverb

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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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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

18.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

19.

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

Greier, John

20.

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

Edwards, Tryon

21.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

30.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

33.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

34.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Bible

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Burns, George

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

43.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

45.

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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.