Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Jung, Carl

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Burke, Billie

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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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

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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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

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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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

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Cope, Wendy

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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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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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dressler, Marie

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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.

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.