Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

10.

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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

Ullman, Samuel

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoagland, Edward

15.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

16.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

17.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

18.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

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

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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 know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

23.

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

Woolf, Virginia

24.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

25.

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

Proverb, Irish

26.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Lerner, Max

29.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

31.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Chopra, Deepak

34.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

35.

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

Vaughan, Henry

36.

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

37.

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

Christie, Agatha

38.

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

Burke, Billie

39.

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

Rostand, Jean

40.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Edwards, Tryon

43.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

44.

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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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

47.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

50.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.