Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Twain, Mark

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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 the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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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

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

Young, Edward

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wordsworth, William

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

Burke, Billie

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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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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Becker, May L.

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

Rahel

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Collins, Mortimer

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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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 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

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

Cass, Eli

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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

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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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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.

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