Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

18.

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

Tholuck

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

23.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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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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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.