Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Updike, John

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

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

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

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

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

11.

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

14.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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.

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

35.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

36.

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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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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Fonda, Jane

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Thurber, James

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.