Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hoagland, Edward

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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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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

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

14.

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

Day, Doris

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Burns, George

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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

18.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

28.

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

Wharton, Edith

29.

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

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

32.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

33.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

34.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

35.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

36.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

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37.

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

Hugo, Victor

38.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

40.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

43.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

44.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Cato The Elder

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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.

47.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

48.

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

Chopra, Deepak

49.

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

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50.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

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