Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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

Marx, Groucho

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Paul, Jean

13.

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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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

15.

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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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

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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.

18.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

19.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

20.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

21.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Kanin, Garson

25.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

28.

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

29.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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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

34.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Woolf, Virginia

39.

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Buruch, Andre B.

42.

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

43.

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

Richards, Keith

44.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

45.

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

Burke, Billie

46.

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

47.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

48.

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

Chopra, Deepak

49.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest