Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hazlitt, William

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Becker, May L.

11.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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

Burke, Billie

13.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Chopra, Deepak

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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

Burke, Billie

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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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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

19.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

21.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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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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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

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

Rahel

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Proverb, Irish

31.

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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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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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

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

41.

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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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

46.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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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