Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

10.

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

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

Carey, Joyce

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

15.

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.

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

18.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

22.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Cass, Eli

26.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

28.

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.

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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.

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

50.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon