Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

- Ullman, Samuel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Hoagland, Edward

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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 surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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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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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Irish

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Cope, Wendy

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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