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

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Fonda, Jane

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Child, Lydia M.

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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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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]

Bible

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

34.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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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

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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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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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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William