Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

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

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

10.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

11.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Twain, Mark

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

17.

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

Day, Doris

18.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

19.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

20.

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

Hope, Bob

21.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

24.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Brown, Captain J.

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

28.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

31.

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

Brown, Les

32.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

33.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Meir, Golda

37.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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