Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Rahel

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Mittleman, Stu

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

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

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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.

12.

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

Cope, Wendy

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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

14.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

15.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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

23.

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

24.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

25.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

26.

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

Becker, May L.

27.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Mortimer, John

30.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

31.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

32.

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

Ullman, Samuel

33.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

40.

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

41.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

42.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

43.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

44.

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

45.

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

Thurber, James

46.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

48.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

49.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.