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

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

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

Greier, John

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Carey, Joyce

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

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

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

10.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

11.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

15.

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

Gabriel, Peter

16.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

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

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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

20.

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

21.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

22.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Proverb, Irish

24.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

25.

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

26.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

27.

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

28.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

29.

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.

30.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

31.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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

35.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

36.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

37.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

42.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

43.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

46.

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

Fonda, Jane

47.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

48.

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

Ball, Lucille

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