Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Bible

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.

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

Stael, Germaine De

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

10.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

11.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

12.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

13.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

15.

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

Gabriel, Peter

16.

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

Wharton, Edith

17.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

18.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

19.

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

20.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

21.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

23.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

24.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

25.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Fonda, Jane

30.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

31.

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

Hoagland, Edward

32.

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

Updike, John

33.

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

Cass, Eli

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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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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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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

40.

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

Burke, Billie

41.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

42.

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.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

46.

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

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Richards, Keith

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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

50.

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