Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Wharton, Edith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

Mortimer, John

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

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.

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

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

Browning, Robert

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Updike, John

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

Brookner, Anita

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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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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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

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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