Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bible

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

10.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

11.

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

12.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Moreau, Jeanne

14.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Bleasdale, Alan

16.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

17.

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

Thurber, James

18.

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.

19.

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

Hoagland, Edward

20.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

21.

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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Chopra, Deepak

24.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Updike, John

30.

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

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

34.

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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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

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

38.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

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

40.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

41.

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Steele, Sir Richard

43.

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

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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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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

50.

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