Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Burke, Billie

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

10.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

11.

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

12.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

14.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

15.

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

16.

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

Carter, Lillian

17.

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

Ali, Muhammad

18.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

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

Hawn, Goldie

20.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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To grow old is to grow common. 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

22.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

24.

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

25.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

26.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

27.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

30.

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

Brown, Les

31.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

32.

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

Proverb

33.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

34.

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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

36.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

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.

38.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

39.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

40.

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

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

Wordsworth, William

42.

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

43.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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

45.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

48.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

49.

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

50.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill