Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Burns, George

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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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

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Meir, Golda

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

Young, Edward

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel