Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Bunuel, Luis

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Cope, Wendy

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hugo, Victor

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

Proverb

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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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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

29.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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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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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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

Dressler, Marie

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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Minds ripen at very different ages.