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

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

14.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

15.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

16.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

17.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

18.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

19.

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

20.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

21.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

25.

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

Burns, George

26.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

29.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

30.

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

31.

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

Cato The Elder

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

35.

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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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

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

38.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

40.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

41.

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

Mittleman, Stu

42.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

43.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

44.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

45.

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

Turner, Tina

46.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

48.

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

Moreau, Jeanne