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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
- Powell, Anthony
Age and aging Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Age and aging

1.
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

2.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

3.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Sutzkever, Abraham

4.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Carter, Lillian

5.
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
Cicero, Marcus T.

6.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
Ullman, Samuel

7.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Hope, Bob

8.
An old man loved is winter with flowers.
Proverb, German

9.
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.
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

11.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Alcott, Amos Bronson

12.
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

13.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Dressler, Marie

14.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Lerner, Max

15.
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
Vaughan, Henry

16.
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

17.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Wharton, Edith

18.
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Meir, Golda

19.
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Cope, Wendy

20.
Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
Bierce, Ambrose

21.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

22.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Swift, Jonathan

23.
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.

24.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
Inge, Dean William R.

25.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Alcott, Amos Bronson

26.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Hugo, Victor

27.
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
Twain, Mark

28.
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Harris, Corra May

29.
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Bunuel, Luis

30.
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
Burke, Billie

31.
The worst old age is that of the mind.
Hazlitt, William

32.
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

33.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Woolf, Virginia

35.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Brown, Les

36.
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

37.
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Haydon, Benjamin

38.
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.

39.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Durrell, Lawrence

40.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Nuveen, John

41.
Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Osler, Sir William

42.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.
A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.
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

45.
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Billings, Josh

46.
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.
Proverb

47.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Hope, Bob

48.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Powell, Anthony

49.
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

50.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.
Nicklaus, Jack


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