Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

10.

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

11.

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

Rostand, Jean

12.

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

Gabriel, Peter

13.

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)

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

15.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

16.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

18.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

22.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

23.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

24.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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.

28.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

29.

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

30.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

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

Burns, George

34.

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

Nuveen, John

35.

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

Defoe, Daniel

36.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

40.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

41.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

42.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

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

Proverb, Irish

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

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

Richards, Keith

46.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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

48.

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

Meyers, Ernest

49.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Palmer, R.