Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

To grow old is to grow common. 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

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cope, Wendy

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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

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gabriel, Peter

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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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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Hope, Bob

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh