Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Age and aging

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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)

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

Wilde, Oscar

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Steele, Sir Richard

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

10.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

11.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

12.

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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

16.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

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

Carey, Joyce

19.

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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

21.

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

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

23.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

29.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb

34.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Turner, Tina

36.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

37.

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

Burke, Billie

38.

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

Thurber, James

39.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Wharton, Edith

41.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

42.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

43.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

45.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

46.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

47.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

48.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

49.

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

50.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John