Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Hugo, Victor

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

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

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

15.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

16.

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

Rahel

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Burke, Billie

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Brown, Les

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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

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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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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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

Cass, Eli

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Mittleman, Stu

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Stael, Germaine De

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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