Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Minds ripen at very different ages.

- Montagu, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Ball, Lucille

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

Ali, Muhammad

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Day, Doris

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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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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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.

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

Burke, Billie

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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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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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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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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

35.

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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Thurber, James

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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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.

44.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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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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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

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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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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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