Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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 age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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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

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Meir, Golda

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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

Tholuck

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Powell, Anthony

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.