Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

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

Ball, Lucille

12.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

13.

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 think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

15.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

16.

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

17.

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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

20.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

21.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

22.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

25.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

26.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

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

Meir, Golda

28.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

29.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

32.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

33.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

37.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

38.

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

39.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

41.

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

Hazlitt, William

42.

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

Mittleman, Stu

43.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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