Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Proverb, Irish

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Gabriel, Peter

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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 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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

Carter, Lillian

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Collins, Mortimer

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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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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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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.

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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest