Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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

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

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Philo

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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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

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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

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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 the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Becker, May L.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Turner, Tina

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De