Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Wilde, Oscar

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Burke, Billie

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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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

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Jung, Carl

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

36.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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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

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

Carter, Lillian

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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