Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Sutzkever, Abraham

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hope, Bob

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

10.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

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

Carey, Joyce

13.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Cato The Elder

16.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

17.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

18.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

19.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

21.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

23.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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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

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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

28.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

29.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

32.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

33.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

34.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

35.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

39.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

40.

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

Paul, Jean

41.

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

43.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

44.

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

45.

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

Christie, Agatha

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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

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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

49.

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

50.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English