Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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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Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Burke, Billie

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

10.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

11.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

12.

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

13.

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

Brown, Captain J.

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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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.

16.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

Bunuel, Luis

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

21.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

23.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

24.

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

Rostand, Jean

25.

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

26.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

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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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

30.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

31.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Bible

33.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

35.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

36.

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

37.

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

Hope, Bob

38.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

39.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

40.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

41.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

42.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Dressler, Marie

44.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

45.

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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

48.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

49.

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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony