Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Young, Edward

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

13.

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

14.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

15.

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

16.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

20.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

23.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

25.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

31.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

32.

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

33.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

34.

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

Hawn, Goldie

35.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

36.

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

Edwards, Tryon

37.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

40.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

41.

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

Rostand, Jean

42.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

43.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

44.

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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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

49.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin