The 110 most inspiring phrases about age

Time is relentless, because it never stops regardless of how we decide to take advantage of what we have; and there is no better way in which we can check it than by seeing how a person grows.

Age is a symbol of what we learn as we transform ourselves throughout life, and that is why this that many famous weighers, artists and intellectuals have reflected on it throughout the History. Therefore, in this article you will find a selection of the best phrases about age, commented.

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The best phrases about age

It is said that with age we become wiser, and this happens as long as we can live life in a happy way and learn from our mistakes to improve. To reflect on this, we bring in this article the best phrases about age.

1. Memory and time move in two opposite directions. (WilliamGibson)

An appreciation of the nature of memory.

2. All my possessions for one more moment of time. (Elizabeth I)

Time cannot be bought.

3. To old accounts, new decks. (Anonymous)

You should not stop solving a problem because it can lead to a bigger one.

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4. The years that a woman takes off are never wasted, they go to any of her friends. (Chinese proverb)

Removing the years does not influence how old you are.

5. I think that at fifty, everyone has the face they deserve. (George Orwell)

Each stage of life is unique and must be lived fully.

6. Why would God put the best of all life at the beginning? (Victor Hugo)

In the childhood stage there are no problems, you only think about playing.

7. Neither April without flowers, nor youth without love. (Anonymous)

In every period of life there are loves to remember.

8. At twenty a man is a peacock; at thirty, a lion; at forty, a camel; at fifty, a snake; at sixty, a dog; at seventy, a monkey; at eighty, nothing. (Baltasar Gracian)

Each stage that man lives has his teachings.

9. In old age sleep is shortened and grunting is lengthened. (Anonymous)

As we get older, we stop sleeping and increase our grumbling.

10. Age is not a barrier. It is a limitation that you put in your mind. (Anonymous)

Age knows no limits, the mind does.

11. Age is a matter of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Mark Twain)

You are the only one who can decide if age affects you or not.

12. Age is not counted in intervals of time, it matures with a farewell blow, in the sealed count of the unfathomable passage of time. (Jose Carlos Valverde Sanchez)

Life has its way of teaching us to mature.

13. Shameless old man makes the child foul-mouthed.

Childhood and old age have their charms.

14. Time, which changes everything, also changes our character; each age has its pleasures, its particular genius and its own customs. (Nicolas Boileau)

Each age brings its own teaching.

15. After all, you have to feel young: it doesn't matter at what age you decide to be young. (Henry Duvernois)

Feeling young is not a matter of age, but of attitude towards life.

16. If the young man knew and the old man could, there would be nothing that would not be done.

The young man is old but not experienced and the old man is experienced but not long enough.

17. Youth: a treasure that can be had at any age, even young people. (Adrien Decourcelle)

Youth is a treasure that young people do not know how to take advantage of.

18. Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of the spirit. (German Matthew)

Being young is not associated with appearance, but with the spirit.

19. Every age has its own fruits; you need to know how to pick them up. (Raymond Radiguet)

Man seldom knows how to live his life in the right way.

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20. At twenty, everyone has the face that God has given them; with forty the face that life has given them and with sixty the one they deserve. (Albert Schweitzer)

Age is reflected in the face.

21. When there are new saints, the old ones do not perform miracles.

It refers to new friends or acquaintances.

22. You are old when you have more joy for the past than for the future. (John Knittel)

The old days are usually better.

23. Time is the most valuable thing a person can spend (Theophrastus)

Do not waste time unnecessarily as it cannot be recovered

24. Those who love deeply never grow old, they can die of old age but they die young (Arthur Wing Pinero)

Love rejuvenates.

25. To idle youth, toilsome old age.

If you don't work in youth, you spend a lot of work in old age.

26. Five minutes are enough to dream a lifetime, that's how relative time is. (Mario Benedetti)

Time cannot be measured, what for one is a century, for others is a minute.

27. Love is space and time measured by the heart. (Marcel Proust)

To love there is no age.

28. If you are old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

If you can't change your inside, focus on the outside.

29. The young may not know what age thinks and feels like, but the old are responsible if they forget what it meant to be a young man.

Never forget the youthful years.

30. At forty years of age, disease comes easily.

Over the years, diseases appear.

31. Childhood companions do not stop growing old. (Graham Greene)

They do not age when the memories are in force.

32. Let's not waste any of our time; perhaps there were more beautiful, but this is ours. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Do not focus on the past, the present is what is worthwhile.

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33. From forty and above do not wet your belly. (Saying)

From a certain age, gravity already has its effect.

34. There is always something in us that does not mature with age. (Jacques Benigne Bossuet)

Every man carries a child who has not matured.

35. As you get older you are more cautious and do more crazy things. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)

Old age is a very beautiful stage where there is sanity and madness.

36. We hardly understand the ruins until the day we become it ourselves. (Heinrich Hein)

We only understand when we are having a problem.

37. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. (SteveJobs)

Accept your life as it is.

38. The way we spend our time defines who we are. (Jonathan Estrin)

We are responsible for what we do.

39. You don't stop laughing because you're getting older. You get older because you stop laughing. (Maurice Chevalier)

Laughter gives life and rejuvenates.

40. Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you want to keep them in good working order. (John Adams)

We must at all times prepare and acquire knowledge.

41. After a certain age, we begin to wear a mask of security and certainty. Over time, that mask sticks to the face and can no longer be removed. (Paulo Coelho)

We must always be ourselves regardless of age.

42. Age, by itself, does not make anyone better or wiser, it only accentuates what each one has always been. (Isabel Allende)

Age without knowledge is meaningless.

43. To live too long is to lose even memories. (Jacques Chardonnay)

With age the mind fades.

44. The philosophy of one age has become the absurdities of the next, and yesterday's folly has become tomorrow's wisdom. (William Osler)

All times have their teachings.

45. We all yearn to grow old and we all deny that we have arrived. (Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas)

We all want to grow, but when we do, we deny its existence.

46. A beautiful old age is the reward of a beautiful life. (Pythagoras)

Old age must be lived with dignity.

47. Many people don't make it to their eighties because they try too long to stay in their forties. (Salvador Dali)

You always have to move forward.

48. Old age is a sentence without the right to appeal. (Marcello Mastrolanni)

All human beings are heading towards old age, there is no turning back.

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49. The past limits us, but the future frightens us. The only safe place is the present (Isaac López)

The here and now is what really matters.

50. You can't help but get older, but you don't have to get older. (Anonymous)

Old age can be lived with youth.

51. Time changes everything, except something in us that is always surprised by change. (Thomas Hardy)

Since time is dynamic, nothing stays the same.

52. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not by tears. (John Lennon)

If you have many friends and have laughed a lot, then you have lived fully.

53. Each one is the age of his heart. (c. Alfred D'Houdetot)

Age is not carried in the physical but in the heart.

54. How foolish is the man who allows time to pass sterilely. (Goeth)

Never waste time on pointless things.

55. Getting old is not lost youth, but a new stage of opportunity and strength. (BettyFriedan)

Old age is a new youth, but with experience.

56. When we are young we lose our youth wanting to grow and when we have grown we cry for lost youth. Forget it, live the years you have. (Xavier Berger)

Don't waste time longing for the past, live your life today.

57. That the years pass very quickly? Yes, for which he grows old. (Knut Hamson)

The human being who ages is the one who does not live life fully.

58. In youth the days are short and the years long; in old age the years are short and the days are long. (Nikita Ivanovich)

The young see life as very long and the elderly as very short.

59. Enthusiasm is the daily bread of youth. Skepticism, the daily wine of old age. (PearlS. Buck)

The young live with enthusiasm and the old with mistrust.

60. If you let time pass without doing anything, you will soon realize that you are only going to live once. (Anonymous)

Every experience is a learning.

61. The trick is to grow up without getting older.

Personal growth has nothing to do with age.

62. Youth is immoderate in its desires. (Emile Zola)

Young people are very unrestrained in their desires.

63. The past was youth and joy: the present, nostalgia and wisdom. (Barbara Apolonia Chanupiec)

Old age is a period of nostalgia, but full of much wisdom.

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64. Adolescence has been the only time in my life in which I have learned something. (Marcel Proust)

For many people, adolescence was a time of learning.

65. Happy the one who was young in his youth, happy the one who knew how to mature in time. (Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin)

Maturity comes when we know how to appreciate our experiences.

66. Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. (German Matthew)

Being young is not only a matter of years, but of attitude.

67. Age is not measured by years. Some people are born old and tired, while others go full-energy into their seventies. (Dorothy Thompson)

Youth is not a matter of youth and old age is not of old people.

68. How old would you be if you didn't know the date you were born and there were no damn calendars bent on bringing you down once a year? (Jack Canfield)

Age should not only be the one we have, but the one we think we have.

69. A man is not old until remorse takes the place of dreams of him. (John Barrymore)

As long as repentance does not come, man does not mature.

70. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether they are 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. (Henry Ford)

Knowledge keeps both the spirit and the body young.

71. In all our actions, the correct value and respect for time determines success or failure. (Malcolm X)

We have to accept our age, success depends on that.

72. The problem is that you think you have time. (Buddha)

As long as we believe that we have life, everything is possible.

73. Each age of life is new to us; no matter how old we are, inexperience still plagues us. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)

Every stage of life comes loaded with hope and knowledge.

74. When they get old, customs become tyrannies. (Gustave Flaubert)

Old age can be very difficult to face.

75. Age is just a number, something to put on the records. Man cannot withdraw experience from him, he must use it. With experience you achieve more with less energy. (Bernard M. baruch)

The years we have are just a number, experience and knowledge are worth much more.

76. You are the age you want to be, and also the age of the money you have. (Jean Anouilh)

The chronological age is different from that which is achieved artificially.

77. It is healthy to unclog the pipes of memory and finish making peace with everything that was left behind. (Maria Duenas)

Growing up is facing mistakes and accepting the consequences.

78. Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who maintains the ability to see beauty does not age. (FranzKafka)

If you see the beauty in life, then you will never grow old.

79. A woman's age means nothing. The best melodies are played on old violins.

Women are beautiful at any age.

80. Too many people feel that they have to live by the calendar.

Do not live by your date of birth, but by each day lived.

81. It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter the time, the greater our ability to wait. (Elizabeth Taylor)

As we age, life has a different perspective.

82. Neither so old that she charms, nor so young that she frolics.

A young woman is as pretty as a mature woman.

83. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. (Leo Tolstoy)

If we are patient, time will not seem eternal.

84. Fearless young man leaves no memory.

The follies of youth cease to be in people's minds.

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85. Do you love life? Well, if you love life, don't waste time, because time is the good that life is made of (Benjamin Franklin)

Try to do productive things, avoid wasting time.

86. Love is something eternal, the appearance can change, but not the essence. (Jeff Zinnert)

Your appearance can change, but not your soul.

87. A coffin awaits old age and youth. (Anonymous)

Anyone can die young or old.

88. Tell someone how young you are! it is also a way of saying: how old you are. (Archibald Alexander Leach)

Youth and old age are only appearance.

89. Age also has its very healthy advantages, much of the alcohol that we liked to drink is spilled. (Andre Gide)

During youth many excesses are committed.

90. Old age is not sad because our joys cease, but because our hopes end. (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)

Old age is the twilight of life.

91. To honest gray hair, there should be no closed doors. (Anonymous)

Gray hair is not a sign of old age, but of love for life.

92. His deeds are what make a man old. (Publio Ovidio Nason)

A man is as old as his actions.

93. Young is he who is healthy, even if he is eighty years old; and old and suffering, although he is twenty.

Being young is no guarantee of being healthy and old age is not synonymous with illness.

94. It takes time to become young. (Pablo Picasso)

Being young requires effort and dedication.

95. Maturity comes when you stop growing at the ends and start growing in the middle. (Anonymous)

When you learn to value things and recognize that time has passed, then maturity has come into our lives.

96. Youth is the only defect that is cured with age. (Anonymous)

Youth also ends.

97. Don't hide behind your age, that's how you get old. (Carmen Martin Gaite)

Don't deny your age, accept it with love.

98. It's kind of a tribute to say that someone 16 years younger than me finally helped me start acting my age.

We can have friends of any age.

99. Live life and forget your age. (Norman Vincent Peale)

Live each day of your life as if you were just born.

100. Nobody is as old as those who have survived the enthusiasm. (Henry David Thoreau)

The madness is not only of young people.

101. If you have plenty of time when you are young, when you are old it is hidden from you. (Anonymous)

When we are old we want to do things that many times we cannot.

102. Do you want to be invisible to men? Be poor. (John W. Goeth)

Poverty makes time pass slowly.

103. Each age gives us a different role. (Napoleon)

What we are today is a reflection of yesterday.

104. There is nothing more uncertain than the number of years of the ladies who are said to be of a certain age. (Lord Byron)

Women often lie about age

105. The young to act and the old to advise. (Anonymous)

Youth is to create and old age to inspire.

106. I don't feel old because I have so many years behind me, but because of the few that I have ahead of me. (Ephraim Kishon)

Upon reaching a certain age, the path slows down.

107. Perhaps time is measured in words. In the words that are said. And in which they are not said. (Sweet Chacon)

Words are carried by the wind, that's why it doesn't determine time.

108. She dreamed of being old to have time for many things. He didn't want to be young, because he wasted his time loving only. (Silvina Ocampo)

You always have to invest time in good things.

109. The old man does not lack what to tell, neither to the sun nor to the home. (Anonymous)

The elderly also have their stories.

110. Age is a matter of choosing a young man. (Hanuszkiewicz)

Youth is the state of mind that always accompanies us.