Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

- Cass, Eli

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

11.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

12.

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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

15.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

16.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

19.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

20.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

21.

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

Vaughan, Henry

22.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

23.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

24.

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

25.

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

30.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

31.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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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

37.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Philo

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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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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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

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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

49.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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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.