Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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.

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

Twain, Mark

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Browning, Robert

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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.

20.

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

Mittleman, Stu

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Billings, Josh

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

27.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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

Burke, Billie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Christie, Agatha

47.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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

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

Jung, Carl