Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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

Richards, Keith

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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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

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

Bible

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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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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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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Burns, George

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

Greier, John

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Turner, Tina

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

Lerner, Max

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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

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Hugo, Victor

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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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

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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