Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Ullman, Samuel

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Burns, George

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

Hoagland, Edward

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

15.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

23.

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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Bible

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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

30.

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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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

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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To grow old is to grow common. 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

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Cope, Wendy

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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