Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cass, Eli

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.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Bunuel, Luis

15.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

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

Kanin, Garson

17.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

18.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

22.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

26.

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

Meir, Golda

27.

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

28.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

29.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

31.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

33.

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

Vaughan, Henry

34.

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

35.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

36.

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

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

42.

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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

50.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''