Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

10.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

11.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

17.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Defoe, Daniel

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Child, Lydia M.

24.

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

25.

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

Day, Doris

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

Greier, John

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Carey, Joyce

29.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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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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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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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

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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

37.

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Meir, Golda

39.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Woolf, Virginia

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle